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Love in Three Acts: a work of fiction (Paperback)by Susan Crossett Lovelorn? Lovesick? How long will it take Libby to get over the enigmatic Zack? All Three Acts and then some. 1960. Libby is off to Italy with the other grad students in her string quartet. Their recital tour leaves plenty of time for mischief even as she continues to dream of her adviser back on campus. Is he up to it? 1985. Reuniting with her friends, Libby catches up with Zack in Aspen, Colorado. Now their love has a chance to grow and strengthen. Or does it? 2007. There remains a third act, moving from Gettysburg to Chicago, to give Libby and Zack yet another chance to fulfill their love. Or does it? Novelist (Her Reason For Being) and weekly columnist (”Musings from the Hill”), Susan Crossett continues her examination of the attractions – did she mention differences? – between the sexes. Serious topics – life, death, love and loss – but always written with a knowing smile. |
READ THE REVIEW BY We reviewed Crossett's debut novel, ''Her Reason for Being,'' some years ago, and we always enjoy reading her column, ''Musings from the Hill,'' in the Dunkirk OBSERVER.
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Her Reason for Being: a novel (Paperback)by Susan Crossett Dilks It is 1899. A man has been shot. His senseless death is of as little concern to us as was his equally irrelevant life. It is the shooter to whom we must turn our attention. More specifically, to the whys that led to that desperate act. But we speak now of the future, the same future which will see the rise to national prominence of the Larkin Manufacturing Company and its bringing Frank Lloyd Wright to Buffalo to design not only its headquarters but the homes of many of the company's officials. Enter a world of society, music, spiritualism, the Pan American Exposition, electricty, the automobile (after the popularity of the bicycle), and the assassination of not one but two Presidents. Tragic deaths, hopeless loves, even the possibility of repressed memories of unbearable pain and horror. Fact and fiction intertwine as Her Reason for Being follows the lives and loves of two very different women over four decades as they struggle to find their place and themselves in one of the most prosperous and fastest growing cities in America. |
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