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Plot Summary of Prizes
"This book is about the lives of three different people and their professional and personal ambitions. Adam is a doctor who stumbles across a cure for liver cancer. His first wife is a cold woman, but he finds love again with Anya, one of his patients at his fertility clinic. Isabella is a child prodigy. Her father pushes her to excel and she graduates from high school when she is 13. She graduates from college at 16, majoring in physics. But her life is all about study, so her social skills are lacking when she meets up with charismatic Jerry, son of her college advisor. Sandy is also a brilliant doctor who goes into the field of gerontology. He starts studying aging when he realizes his beloved father is getting older. Though he once had a loving wife, he still can't get over the woman that he once loved in school, even though she would never even give him the time of day."
BethG, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Prizes
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Plot
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Marriage/Married Yes
Marriage subplot: - inconveniently married while playing footsy
Making a living subplot Yes
Making a living: - attempting to get higher position - office romance among coworkers
Struggling with whom? - Dad
If one lover chases another... - they alternate
Children/Pregnancy Yes
Family focus? Yes
Family, hating Yes

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - doctor
Age/status: - long lived adults
How sexual is this person? - several sexual encounters
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
Sex makes him - confused - guilty
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - a better lover
Sex has bad effect on him Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Female Character
Age/status: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - doctor/medical
How sexual is this person? - a few sexual encounters
How romantic is this person? - somewhat romantic
effect of sexing - scared
Sex has bad effect on her Yes
Sex has good effect on her Yes
Effect of sexing - confident - a better lover - mature
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast - California
City? Yes
City: - Los Angeles - Boston
Misc setting - scientific labs

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
What % of story is romance related? - 50%
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - descript of kissing
Focus of story - many multiple characters
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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