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Loonglow: A Novel Kindle Edition

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Young New Yorkers negotiate challenging relationships in this “sharp, witty and touching” novel of friendship, sex, and love (Time Out).

Manhattan offers the promise of escape for an aimless young man from Memphis. When Clay Lee comes to town hoping to take refuge from family ghosts, he has no idea that a fleeting encounter with an impossibly beautiful woman will upend his life. What begins as a brief obsession becomes the catalyst for exploring the meaning of love itself—in ways Clay could never have anticipated. As he attempts to get his hard-won lessons into focus—and print—he enters a world he didn’t know existed.
 
Wry New York book editor Louisa Mercer has a puzzle she can’t solve: Her love affair with the dazzling, mercurial Mia D’Allesandro has imploded for reasons she can’t pinpoint, and she can’t seem to break its spell. When Louey discovers a manuscript with more than a few direct applications to her own life, her collaboration with its author transforms them both.
 
With New York City as its glittering backdrop,
Loonglow explores the exhilarating and heartbreaking turns that life delivers to both the victors and the victims of love.
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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This first novel is depressing. Characterization has been sacrificed to purported wit, and instead of plot development, there is a succession of scenes that neither reveal character nor portray gripping circumstances. Clay, a rich Southerner at play in New York, is obsessed by a beautiful woman he sees in a bar; the woman, Mia, is a lesbian involved with Louey, a book editor, who in turn is obsessed by Mia but becomes involved with Clay, whose book (a tired satire on Bright Lights, Big City Clay jokingly calls Bright Lights, Hot Pussy) she eventually comes to edit. There seems to be no reason for a committed lesbian to have a fling with a man, much less a bad writer (on the evidence of his novel excerpted in italics) whose work she respects for no discernible reason; there is even less reason for Louey to continue to pine for Mia. The characters are not people, but archetypes (they refer to each other as "baby," "dollface," "honey," "girl," "girlie" and "sugar"), complete with "witty" repartee that is obscure, tiresome and not at all funny. Troubled childhoods come back to haunt most of them in two- or three-page chapters periodically dropped in. Louey and Clay's unusual a deux is simply a variation on the central relationship in Stephen McCauley's Object of My Affection, a novel notable for precisely what is missing herea narrative with vitality, humor and sincere emotion. 75,000 first printing.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

$16.95. f Clay is an aspiring writer living on Scotch and family money in New York City. He falls madly in love with Mia D'Allesandro, "the most lethal woman this side of Gomorrah"; and then with Louey, the young woman Mia has jilted. As Louey introduces Clay to her world of women's bars and gay marches, they begin a tentative affair. But Louey deserts Clay the minute Mia whirls back into her life. When this sad triangle later regroups in London, Clay is a famous author and Louey a successful artist. They decide to have another go at it. Appealing minor characters and some clever dialogue do not save this first novel from mediocrity. Not a necessary purchase. Maurice Taylor, Brunswick Cty. Lib., Southport, N.C.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00OUAHF36
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (December 16, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 16, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1953 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 222 pages
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Top reviews from the United States

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2022
Interesting characters, really spills the emotion of being in love and quarreling with sexuality in the world. I recommend it.
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2016
Publishers Weekly, your review was depressing. I read this book years ago in fact several times and enjoyed it enormously! It was a fun read. I plan on reading it again, and recommend that your review be recognized as just one person's opinion who was not able to appreciate something so delightful.
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2016
A terrific read. An important, memorable early LGBT novel. Also, an incisive look into the publishing world.
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