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Claire is "pushing forty with a short stick." She's divorced and raising two teenagers in a small town where just about everybody else is married. Claire longs for companionship, romance, and passion. She's tried blind dates, answered the personals. She's still looking.
When Claire meets Tim -- also divorced, struggling to raise his own daughter, Ursula -- she believes she's found the perfect partner and lover. But as Tim and Claire work toward joining their families and building an intimate life together, their families clash in a never-ending battle for attention and affection: Ursula resents Claire, and Claire's children hate Ursula. When Ursula wreaks a unique and deadly vengeance on everyone, her mother suddenly shows up after a two-year absence and both families spin out of control. "I used to think you and I could make a family together," Claire tells Tim. "Now I feel I'm losing the family I had."
Where Love Goes is a poignant and stirring story about a woman's brave attempt to remake her life. Maynard writes realistically -- at times comically, at times lyrically -- about the issues women deal with today: the conflict between sexuality and domesticity, how to be a good enough mother and still survive professionally, and how to find passion and enduring love along the way. Her new novel will ring with truth and hopefulness for anyone who has ever loved, lost, and decided to try again.
When Claire meets Tim -- also divorced, struggling to raise his own daughter, Ursula -- she believes she's found the perfect partner and lover. But as Tim and Claire work toward joining their families and building an intimate life together, their families clash in a never-ending battle for attention and affection: Ursula resents Claire, and Claire's children hate Ursula. When Ursula wreaks a unique and deadly vengeance on everyone, her mother suddenly shows up after a two-year absence and both families spin out of control. "I used to think you and I could make a family together," Claire tells Tim. "Now I feel I'm losing the family I had."
Where Love Goes is a poignant and stirring story about a woman's brave attempt to remake her life. Maynard writes realistically -- at times comically, at times lyrically -- about the issues women deal with today: the conflict between sexuality and domesticity, how to be a good enough mother and still survive professionally, and how to find passion and enduring love along the way. Her new novel will ring with truth and hopefulness for anyone who has ever loved, lost, and decided to try again.
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About the Author:
Joyce Maynard was a freshman at Yale when she published her memorable New York Times cover story, "An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back at Life." Her most recent novel, To Die For, is now a movie produced by Columbia Pictures. She lives in Keene, New Hamphire, with her three children.
From Publishers Weekly:
Maynard's precocious debut 23 years ago at age 18 was founded on unsparing commentary on contemporary American life?but the same reliance on pop culture and brand names reduces her new novel to a paean to the middlebrow. Claire Temple is part Martha Stewart, part supermother, a children's museum director in a New England town. A curiously colorless character, she is involved in a series of relationships with vividly drawn?if not very competent?men. Ex-husband Sam fights dirty for custody, paints her as the heavy and never contributes enough money. Mickey, met through a personal ad, is Claire's one true love, but he communicates with her only by phone and, in any case, says he doesn't like children. Tim is a penniless biology teacher with a sad-sack seven-year-old: it is the loss of his child (reminiscent of The Good Mother)that proves the one compelling story element here. Meanwhile, Claire's children have the requisite melodramatic flourishes: a blue-haired, nose-ringed friend; scrapes with the law; a pregnancy scare; an auto accident. As an everywoman, Claire rings true, if familiar, but her ruminations on the way love dies are provocative. Literary Guild alternate; author tour.
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- PublisherRandom House Value Publishing
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 051719614X
- ISBN 13 9780517196144
- BindingHardcover
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