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Plot Summary of Shared Lives
"E-book collection of 13 short stories, some of author's most recent fiction. Tales show variation on lives of a dozen or so couples with complex insights into all of our "shared lives." Fictions include much humor, adult sentiments, love stories sassy and sincere, most in extended scene or "dialogue" treatment. Literary. Taormina listed "Who's Who In Entertainment.""
Charles A. Taormina, Resident Scholar




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Plot
Tone of book? - upbeat
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Kind of romance: - GENERAL--no other subplots apply - playing footsy while inconveniently married - rekindling lost love/marriage
Family, loving relations Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Unusual Style: - No single main character?
Is this an e-book? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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