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Pocket, Oct 2001, 25.00, 400 pp.
ISBN: 0743407075
The “Grand Dames have lived on GRAND AVENUE in Mariemont, an upscale Cincinnati superb, for two decades. They actually met when each on escorted their own small child to a nearby playground with three swings. The last one to arrive always was stuck in the sandbox and mom knew how degrading that was. Susan, Vicki, Barbara, and Chris became close friends and stayed as pals over the subsequent years of raising their respective child.
However, the idyllic life shown on tape has gone sour for at least of the quartet. She slowly looks at the past to try to learn what went wrong. She thought she found love with her spouse and with her three close friends, but now all she seeks is justice.
GRAND AVENUE is a grand relationship drama that focuses on the lives of four women. Readers see how each one forges a relationship with the other three, their respective husbands and children. The secondary characters add depth to the lead cast. However, the “need” for justice subplot actually lends an engaging twist, but that spins away from the powerful prime plot of four women seeking an identity of their own rather than precariously living through the life of a loved one.
Harriet Klausner
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Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar
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"For twenty years, four friends; Chris, Vicki, Barbara, and Susan shared everything and faced the challenges of life and love head-on. Now, one sits alone to ponder the strange twists of fate and circumstance. Dreams are turned into nightmares as friendships faded and lives were destroyed.
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Boppy, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Abusive:
- strongly verbal
- treated like a slave
Difficult/unusual lover?
Yes
How difficult?
- domineering
Inner struggle subplot
Yes
Struggle with...
- (general) search for identity/new understanding
Children/Pregnancy
Yes
Children/Pregnancy:
- kid(s) make adults sensitive
Who's in charge?
- he is
Abusive lover?
Yes
Main Male Character
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age/status:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric/mental:
Yes
Eccentric:
- emotionally unstable
How sexual is this person?
- very picky
How romantic is this person?
- somewhat romantic
Sex makes him
- more bitchy/arrogant
- more demanding
- wild
Sex has bad effect on him
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Main Female Character
Age/status:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- homemaker
- small businessman
How sexual is this person?
- very picky
- a few sexual encounters
How romantic is this person?
- somewhat romantic
- not very romantic
effect of sexing
- confused
Sex has bad effect on her
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
- Midwest
City?
Yes
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
- rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
- moderately detailed references to deaths
What % of story is romance related?
- 40%
- 50%
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- actual description of sex
- spanking that woman dislikes
Focus of story
- equally on him and her
- many multiple characters
Consequences of sex
- pregnancy
How much dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing?
- 3-4 sex acts
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