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Synopsis
The Lord's Motel is a hilarious and poignant first novel about love, the singles scene, and the absurdities of modern life.
Colleen Sweeney, a librarian in Houston specializing in service to the unserved, is in love with Mr. Wrong--Web Desiderio--a playboy and social director on a cruise ship. Web leads Colleen into an arrest for prostitution. Then, when one of her homebound patrons is rushed to the emergency room, Colleen meets Mr. Right--Dr. Gabriel Benedict--who is horrified by her past. Throughout her adventures, Colleen is supported by her friends from the Lord's Motel, the unusual apartment building in which she lives. A lively and eccentric cast of characters, an offbeat plot, and a spunky heroine make for light and enjoyable reading."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Storey was born in Massachusetts. She has worked as a librarian and as administrative director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.
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Storey's debut is The Mary Tyler Moore Show updated, set in a funky apartment house in the Montrose section of Houston. The super, known as St. Francis, dispenses carrot juice during New Age Happy Hour to a collection of hip dorm-dwellers: Barbara, a Texas farm girl turned loan officer, pregnant by a welder; Gigi, into computers and sex at least three times a week; and, last but not least, Colleen, a real doll who works at the public library, does aerobics, drinks PMS tea, and keeps trying to transform herself ``from a tart on a heroic quest into a handmaiden of higher consciousness.'' But, as she says, ``Where are all the red-blooded American boys I was promised for my virtue?'' Clearly not in her bed, since she's currently sleeping with one Web Desiderio, a cruise-ship social director who knows exactly how to get her to do what he wants, like dancing semi-nude at stag parties. So, when Colleen meets a man who looks like a real contender--an ER doctor named Gabriel who's endearingly disconsolate over his divorce-- she's hard-pressed to explain how it is that she's up on a prostitution rap (resulting from a kinky evening with Web and friends). But good guys like Gabe understand, ergo happy ending. Every other line is a punch line--or trying to be. Occasionally a glimmer of light shows through, but generally this is a novel that asks insistently: Aren't I cute? Isn't my life nifty? -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherPersea
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0892551941
- ISBN 13 9780892551941
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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