Story Description:
Knopf
Doubelday|January 10, 2012|Hardcover|ISBN: 978-0-385-51029-5
The bestselling
author of Drowning Ruth returns to the small-town Wisconsin she so brilliantly
evoked with this gripping novel about love, marriage, and adultery.
In the summer of
1963 a plot for revenge destroys a career, a friendship, and a family. The consequences of the scandalous event
continue to reverberate, touching the next generation. Thirty years later, over the course of one
day, Jon struggles to decide whether to end his affair or his marriage. His wife, Ginny, moving closer to discovering
his adultery, begins working for an older man who is mysteriously connected to
their families’ pasts. And Jon’s mistress
is being courted by a suitor who may be more menacing than he initially
seems. As relationships among the
characters ebb and flow on that July day, Christina Schwarz illuminates the
ties that bind people together-and the surprising risks they take in the name
of love.
As in Drowning
Ruth, Schwarz weaves past and present into a richly textured portrait of the
secrets and deceptions that simmer beneath everyday life in a small Midwestern town. With page-turning intensity and in prose at
once lush and precise, she beautifully conjures the emotional labyrinth of a
marriage on the brink of collapse and proves that no matter how hard we work to
stifle them, the secrets of the past refuse to be ignored.
Betrayal versus
loyalty…lust versus love…infidelity versus honor. Welcome to the complex web of Christina
Schwarz’s dazzling new novel, So Long at
the Fair.
My Review:
Just couldn’t get
into this story at all either. This is
my day to blog about books I didn’t like or just couldn’t get interested
in. Surely someone else out there will
love it. You can read the synopsis above
and decide for yourself. The interesting
thing is, I absolutely loved Schwarz’s “Drowning Ruth” but found this one blasé
and disappointing.
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