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When expatriate photojournalist Gabriella Carlucci returns to Manhattan for the funeral of her ex-husband, she is greeted by her estranged daughter, bitter old friends, her smothering family, and a new love interest
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The unexpected death of her overbearing ex-husband, district attorney Pete Molloy, brings Gabriella Carlucci-Molloy back to Long Island from Paris, where she has the conventional romance-novel glamour job of photojournalist. At Pete's gravesite, Gabriella gets the cold shoulder from her angry college-age daughter Dina, who, if she only knew it, has much in common with her mom, including abysmal taste in men; both women gravitate toward men so narcissistic one wonders if Victor ( Absence of Pain ) is striving for parody. Before Pete's coffin is lowered into the ground, however, Gabriella steals the heart of Nick Tressa, a diamond-in-the-rough contractor. The story coasts along on predictable misunderstandings between mother and daughter, and Gabriella and Nick, that must be thrashed out before love takes its course. Gabriella's warm, crusty, stifling family is appealingly drawn, but the novel's stale situations and mostly stock characters are forgettable; daughter Dina is a pill. BOMC alternate.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0140130713
- ISBN 13 9780140130713
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages309
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Some creasing and shelf wear to rear cover, one internal corner crease. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Cover photo by James Walker. ; 320 pages; At 39, Gabriella has left the stifling Long Island Mafia behind: a successful photographer, stranger in a foreign land, she will never risk involvement again. Until returning for her ex-husband's funeral, she is forced to confront her past - her mother's incapacitating stroke, her acrimonioys dovorce, and her daughter's bitter estrangement. In addition there is Nick Tressa, local Italian boy made good, representing everything she's ever fled, but also the offer of everything she doesn't dare accept. Mass Market PB. Seller Inventory # 27591
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