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Jane Heller

Autore di Female Intelligence

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Fonte dell'immagine: Credit: Michael Forester

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
Heller, Jane
Nome legale
Heller, Jane
Data di nascita
20th century
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
New York, USA
Luogo di residenza
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Istruzione
University of Rochester (B.A. Classics), Annenberg School of Communications (U of PA)
Attività lavorative
Former book publicist
Relazioni
Michael Forester (husband)
Agente
Ellen Levine (Trident Media Group)
Breve biografia
After a decade promoting bestselling authors for New York publishing houses, Jane Heller became one herself. Her 13 novels of romantic comedy, nine of which have been optioned by Hollywood for film and television, are entertaining readers around the world - and are just out in ebook editions for the first time. Book #14, a nonfiction title, explored her passion for baseball and the NY Yankees. Her next book, also nonfiction, is due in November 2012 from Chronicle: "You'd Better Not Die or I'll Kill You: A Caregiver's Survival Guide to Keeping You in Good Health and Good Spirits." Visit her at http://www.janeheller.com.

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Amy has to work professionally with her former best friend Tara, former because Tara ran off with Amy’s fiancé Stuart. Tara and Stuart are now living a seemingly blissful married life, and Tara wrote a book about it which Amy is assigned to publicize. To cope, Amy invents a fiancé of her own, a famous author who will make Tara jealous. Complications ensue.
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ennie | 3 altre recensioni | Feb 22, 2023 |
half-way thru and just couldn't do it. Way too madcap and maddening. Like reading an I Love Lucy episode without the humor
 
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CarrieWuj | 1 altra recensione | Oct 24, 2020 |
I really enjoyed this. As with almost every book I read lately - did they pass a law or something? - this one is told from alternating perspectives.

Part 1 is devoted to Amy. She tells the story of how Tara, her former best friend, stole Amy's rich and successful fianc̩ and married him instead. This, unsurprisingly, results in the end of the friendship. Amy spends years in therapy trying to get over this double betrayal by Tara and Stuart.

The former friends run into each other four years later on the streets of Manhattan. Tara, looking beautiful, raves about her wonderful marriage to Stuart and their fabulous house in Long Island. She asks Amy condescendingly how she is doing and Amy invents a great fianc̩ of her own. They part company.

In a ridiculous coincidence, it turns out that Tara has written a lifestyle book called "Simply Beautiful" which has been purchased by L&T, the publishing house Amy works for. Guess who has to manage the publicity for the book? Amy. It is really a silly setup; but once you stop rolling your eyes about it, kind of fun.

Tara relentlessly presses Amy for more details about her fianc̩, and instead of 'fessing up, Amy schemes to come up with one. She quickly goes through various candidates among her male acquaintances, trying and failing to find someone remotely impressive. To her surprise she convinces L&T's star author Tony Stiles, to play along with her charade. Tony happens to be the favorite author of Tara and Stuart, and he agrees for reasons of his own to pose as Amy's besotted lover during various outings with the other couple.

By the time the focus switched perspective in Part 2, I thought Amy was a complete nitwit; so even though she was the villain of the piece up to this point, I was very sympathetic to Tara's point of view. Especially as we learn that Tara has not been completely honest about her "Simply Beautiful" life with Stuart.

The two women unravel each other's secrets, work through their past hurts, and ultimately join forces to solve a mystery and rediscover their friendship. It's all very unbelievable but fun.
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AngeH | 3 altre recensioni | Jan 2, 2020 |
Not such a huge fan, I can't blame her for being angry but I just don't understand the extreme measures, maybe because I've never had a bad breakup.
 
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audraelizabeth | Aug 28, 2019 |

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Opere
27
Opere correlate
1
Utenti
1,885
Popolarità
#13,647
Voto
½ 3.3
Recensioni
23
ISBN
143
Lingue
7
Preferito da
2

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