Ten Men

Gray, Alexandra

ISBN 10: 0871138913 / ISBN 13: 9780871138910

Published by Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ten Men
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871138913
• ISBN 13: 9780871138910
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A debut novel chronicles the sexual coming-of-age of a young woman through her relationships with ten men, including a virgin, a billionaire, an actor, an intellectual, and a director, among others. 35,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

Reviews

Gray introduces an intelligent if sometimes misguided heroine who learns about life and love with real grit and spirit. Desperate to escape her mother's stifling Catholic home, our heroine marries a schoolmaster at a men's boarding school on a French island but quickly discovers that island life and a workaholic husband don't fulfill her need for pleasure and adventure. She soon leaves him to pursue love as a single girl. True to the book's title, she describes 10 of her conquests, from the Virgin, a snobbish 40-year-old, through the Lord, a Brit more than twice her age, and on to the Billionaire, a sugar daddy who finances her American acting education. But these relationships really only leave our heroine with the same shallow notion about relationships that plague many men--the notion that love amounts only to the thrill of the chase. Reminiscent of Lucinda Rosenfeld's What She Saw (2000), Gray's debut brings warm, bracing insight to the classic chic-lit story of a young woman in transition. Misha Stone
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