My Summer with George
by Marilyn French
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An unapologetically romantic novel about a woman who finds love in middle age After four marriages and numerous affairs, famed author Hermione Beldame doesn't expect real life to play out like her bestselling romance novels. So she's stunned when she meets George Johnson at a party and the Louisville journalist sweeps her off her feet. The handsome, seductive younger man is the epitome of southern charm. Suddenly, Hermione, who never believed in happily-ever-after, is passionately, show more obsessively in love. During this game-changing summer, as she shuttles between Manhattan and the Hamptons, Hermione--born Elsa Schutz--looks back on her life and the choices that brought her to this crossroad. Consumed by an erotic longing she's never felt before, she sets out on a quest to understand her past, her present, and her future, set in motion by this maddening, elusive, ultimately unknowable man. show lessTags
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I added this book to our library display of love stories and ended up taking it out. It was unconventional in that the love story was a fantasy yet HErmione believed in it despite her career as a romance novelist and her life experience. I though French was somewhat didactic but also clever in showing the many faces of love.
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Writer and feminist activist Marilyn French was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 21, 1929. She studied philosophy and English literature at Hofstra College, earning a bachelor's degree in 1951 and a master's in 1964. Before earning her doctorate from Harvard University, she taught English at Hofstra from 1964 to 1968. She was an assistant show more professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross from 1972 to 1976. She wrote numerous books throughout her lifetime including The Women's Room (1977), The War against Women (1992), and Season in Hell: A Memoir (1998). She died of heart failure on May 2, 2009 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Mijn zomer met George
- Original publication date
- 1996
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