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Lone and unexpectedly unemployed Sylvia Landsman flees to Italy where she meets Henry a wistful married middle aged expatriate Taking off on a grand tour of Europe bankrolled with his wife's money Henry and Sylvia follow a circuitous route around the continent as Sylvia entertains Henry with stories of her peculiar family and her damaged friends
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The Scenic Route A NovelOf dead ducks and Alma Mahler Her narrative is a tapestry The Scenic eBook of remembrances and regretsand her secret shame a small cowardly sin of omission Yet when the opportunity arises for Sylvia and Henry to do something small but brave the refrain if only returns to haunt her leaving Sylvia with one story of love lived and los
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Doc Ý The Scenic Route A Novel Download The Scenic Route A NovelAll I could think of while I was reading this book was a I need to stop getting book recommendations from Oprah Magazine or Real Simple and b this author really teaches writing at Columbia? I suppose if I was a middle age woman plodding along in life and going through some sort of crisis or hoping like hell I soon would and therefore my life would
Doc Ý The Scenic Route A Novel Download The Scenic Route A NovelI loved how the format of this novel reflects its overarching theme The book meanders through time literally taking the scenic route just as the two main characters take the scenic route through Europe Along the way pieces of the past are revealed through flashbacks in seemin
Doc Ý The Scenic Route A Novel Download The Scenic Route A NovelThis book had such a slow start that I almost put it down many times The last third of the book was much better The novel d
Doc Ý The Scenic Route A Novel Download The Scenic Route A NovelWhen I read reviews like witty and poignant a brilliant creation and a most virtuoso performance my interest is peaked and I give a book try Review fail Kirshenbaum's protagonist is hardly witty in a rambling narrative filled with non seuiturs she loses her job travels Europe and takes up with a married man Snippets from her past oddities from her luggage insights from her lover are all jumbled together with no p
Doc Ý The Scenic Route A Novel Download The Scenic Route A NovelBinnie Kirshenbaum's new novel looks like another year in Provence or another romance baked under the Tuscan sun It begins with a recession fantasy A middle age divorced woman gets laid off but uses her severance money for a trip to Italy There as usually happens she strikes up a conversation with a handsome millionaire at a cafe and spends the rest of the summer driving a
Doc Ý The Scenic Route A Novel Download The Scenic Route A NovelPleasant entertaining good vacation book
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Doc Ý The Scenic Route A Novel Download The Scenic Route A NovelTrivial stories and day to day events made into a book Most of the content irrelevantBut the writing style is good
Doc Ý The Scenic Route A Novel Download The Scenic Route A NovelIt wasn't as if this book was full of edge of your seat adventure but Kirshenbaum's writing kept me interested in the story She is so witty