Reel Time: A Novel - Softcover

Willis, Julia

3.92

12 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555834515 ISBN 13: 9781555834517

Publisher: Alyson Books, 1998

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Lana Turner Tuttle - better known as Laney - has just been dumped by her overbearing girlfriend and moved into the ugliest house in town. At least she still has her job screening classic films at the Alcott Theater, and her faithful canine companion, Rita Mae. But before she has a chance to begin wallowing in misery, her new housemates sweep her into a chaotic world filled with reformed lesbians, fascinating new uses for Saran Wrap, and Ena, the alluring, redheaded lead singer for Girl Group. Only a potent sense of humor and a tendency to imagine how her favorite silver-screen stars would handle it all keep Laney on track.

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Laney Turner can't say no to women. When her therapist, Roxanne, asks her out, she reluctantly agrees, and when Roxanne deserts her for another woman, Laney lets her strange new housemates send her on a series of disastrous blind dates--one of which ends abruptly when her date is led away in handcuffs by the police. But no one will introduce her to the woman she really wants to meet: the redheaded, dangerous-looking femme fatale who sings for the band Girl Group. Everyone, it seems, has a hidden past with lovely Ena. Will Laney get her girl? And if she does, will the mystery woman prove to be another disappointment? Julia Willis's comedy gets off to a slow start but picks up speed midway, when Laney and her flame-haired paramour begin to strike sparks off each other. Reel Time is a well-written first novel, with an unusually rich background of friends and events. --Regina Marler

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Laney (short for Lana Turner Tuttle) finds herself looking for somewhere to live after her lover, who is also her therapist, kicks her out in favor of another patient. Laney is in a dead-end job as projectionist at a struggling classic movie theater in Cambridge, MA. With her large dog, she finds a room in a communal house of lesbians and begins looking for love again, hoping to find someone special, someone who will not be just another one of her serial monogamous relationships. Playwright and comic Willis's smart and engaging first novel describes the chaotic lives of Laney's friends and housemates and the comic, hapless souls who frequent the theater. Laney's blind dates never work out, and as she gets to know some of her housemates she is captivated by Ena, the alluring redheaded lead singer of the resident rock band, the Girl Group, which rehearses in the basement. Their inevitable encounter forms the center of the story, and Willis's descriptions of lust and passionate sex capture the heat of love at first sight. Highly recommended for all collections.?Daniel Starr, Museum of Modern Art Lib., New York
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