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Plot Summary of Fast Women
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St. Martin's, May 2001, 24.95, 352 pp.
ISBN: 0312252617

    After twenty years of marriage, Nell Dysart's husband tells her that he no longer loves her and plans to file for a divorce. Nell barely ate or slept for the next eighteen months and rarely left her home. Finally, she is persuaded to apply for a temporary job as an office manager in a
detective agency. During the interview, she breaks the shades, tears a hole in the carpet, and spills coffee all over Gabe McKenna's desk.

    Even though she flopped miserably, Gabe hires her anyway. She soon finds evidence that her predecessor embezzled money from the firm. Soon her temporary job becomes permanent even as Gabe and Nell fall in love with one another. However, Gabe and Nell are control freaks who must find a way to forge a relationship that makes both of them happy or slowly watch it wither away.

    Jennifer Cruise has always put humor in her novel, but in FAST WOMEN, it is subtler as if the author is targeting a more mainstream audience than her usually amusing romances. Readers will delight in the hilarious battle of
the sexes that star two hysterically funny combatants. This novel is destined to hit the best-selling charts.

Harriet Klausner

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Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Fast Women
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Plot
Action/suspense subplot? Yes
Action: - searching for a treasure
Making a living subplot Yes
Making a living: - working at a business - office romance among coworkers
If one lover chases another... - they alternate

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - private investigator
Age/status: - 40's-50's
How sexual is this person? - very picky
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
Sex makes him - confused
Sex has bad effect on him Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - secretary
How sexual is this person? - very picky
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
effect of sexing - confused
Sex has bad effect on her Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Midwest

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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