Real Life - Softcover

Florey, Kitty Burns

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451400291 ISBN 13: 9780451400291

Publisher: Berkley, 1987

Synopsis

After Dorrie, a thirty-eight-year-old potter convinced she is destined to be a spinster, inherits her orphaned nephew Hugo, she meets Alex, a writer with apparently permanent writer's block not overly fond of children

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About the Author

Kitty Burns Florey is the author of ten novels and two works of nonfiction as well as many essays and short stories. Born in Syracuse, she has lived in Boston, Brooklyn, and New Haven. She now lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

 

From Publishers Weekly

More than one unwelcome change occurs in Dorothea Gilbert's settled life after her orphaned nephew, Hugo (a plump, good-natured 14-year-old who is the very antithesis of his bad-seed father), arrives at her isolated cottage with bags in hand. But if Dorrie has her doubts about becoming a mother at 38, Hugo wonders how he'll ever survive this enforced union with an aunt who doesn't even own a television. Without daily doses of his favorite soap opera, the long summer days spent alone while Dorrie works at the potter's wheel seem too grim to contemplate. And when Hugo finally makes friends with an opinionated, stringy-haired singer two years his senior, his aunt appears to disapprove of his choice. While Hugo moons hopelessly over his love and makes some unhappy discoveries about his parentage, Dorrie falls hard for Alex Willick, a tormented writer who makes clear his distaste for Hugo. Before succumbing to an overly neat ending, Florey's fourth novel (Family Matters, etc.) offers warm humor laced wtih a range of emotional nuance that does justice to her appealing characters. Foreign rights: Jane Cushman. January 28
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About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0451400291
• ISBN 13: 9780451400291
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320