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Title: A Much Younger Man by Dianne Highbridge ISBN: 1-56947-147-9 Publisher: Soho Press, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.61 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A realistic, mature and sad romance
Comment: The subject matter in this book is treated with respect and taste. We get to know Alyson, the 35 year old teacher, intimately. We cry for her. We want it to work with Tom, the much younger man, the son of her college friend. Tom sincerely loves Aly, but it will take a lot of courage to deal with society, Tom's parents, and the pressures on Aly as a schoolteacher. The eroticism is very tastefully done, but also highly sensual. Most of the characters are completely believable, with a few stereotypes thrown in to the mix. I know that I was caught up in the lives of the main characters when I began to helplessly sob in the next-to-the-last chapter of the book. This is not casual, light romance. This is serious stuff. It's heartbreaking, moving, and loving. You feel as if you have gone through the three years from the moment Aly and Tom first catch sight of each other on a commuter train. Aly goes from feeling Tom has an "incipient crush" to understand she is in love. Tom, being younger, feels it much sooner. But, in spite of being younger, his love lasts.
This book is written in a very unique style, jumping from first to third person with nary a breath. However, it works. Nearly everything about this book works, and I have re-read it several times. You can feel the emotions as you read about them. Fine story-writing like this is rare, and I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: A realistic and mature romance
Comment: The subject matter in this book is treated with respect and taste. We get to know Alyson, the 35 year old teacher, intimately. We cry for her. We want it to work with Tom, the much younger man, the son of her college friend. Tom sincerely loves Aly, but it will take a lot of courage to deal with society, Tom's parents, and the pressures on Aly as a schoolteacher. The eroticism is very tastefully done, but also highly sensual. Most of the characters are completely believable, with a few stereotypes thrown in to the mix. I know that I was caught up in the lives of the main characters when I began to helplessly sob in the next-to-the-last chapter of the book. This is not casual, light romance. This is serious stuff. It's heartbreaking, moving, and loving. You feel as if you have gone through the three years from the moment Aly and Tom first catch sight of each other on a commuter train. Aly goes from feeling Tom has an "incipient crush" to understand she is in love. Tom, being younger, feels it much sooner. But, in spite of being younger, his love lasts.
This book is written in a very unique style, jumping from first to third person with nary a breath. However, it works. Nearly everything about this book works, and I have re-read it several times. You can feel the emotions as you read about them. Fine story-writing like this is rare, and I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: True and honest
Comment: Dianne Highbridge's heroine, Alyson, is written in a true to life light - in all her inadequacies, her weaknesses of the flesh and mind to stay away from the social taboos of a romance divided by age. The environment which Highbridge creates for the characters is claustrophobic - not unlike what they are experiencing underneath the thumb of his parents, her parents, and others who tell them that they are a social disgrace. What seems to be a fiery romance, stays just that, but also presents itself at the end, as two people who have struggled through oppressive forces, only to find that the only two people who matter in the end of the relationship are themselves.
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Title: Older Women, Younger Men : New Options for Love and Romance by Felicia Brings, Susan Winter ISBN: 0882822004 Publisher: New Horizon Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Cougar: A Guide for Older Women Dating Younger Men by Valerie Gibson ISBN: 1552976351 Publisher: Firefly Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: LOVING A YOUNGER MAN by Houston ISBN: 067166882X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: What Men Won't Tell You but Women Need to Know by Bob Berkowitz, Roger Gittines ISBN: 0380713640 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: How Not to Stay Single After 40 : The Secret to Finding Passion, Love, and Fulfillment--At Last! by Nita Tucker ISBN: 0609805886 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 22 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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