The End of an Error - Hardcover

Medwed, Mameve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446530794 ISBN 13: 9780446530798

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

Unable to forget her first love despite her comfortable marriage and satisfying career, Lee Emery embarks on a quest to find him again and wonders if she is making the right choice.

About this title

About the Author:

Mameve Medwed is the author of Mail and Host Family and a longtime teacher of fiction writing. Her short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in many publications including Redbook, Missouri Review, The Boston Globe, Playgirl, and Newsday. Born in Maine, she and her husband have two sons and live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

From Publishers Weekly:

The author is a practiced hand at warmhearted women's fiction (Host Family; Mail), and her punning title suggests she has struck a more than usually giddy note here. In fact, the humor in this tale of Lee Emery, a happily married woman of a certain age who unaccountably finds herself hankering after her first love, a wry young Englishman she met in her student days, is sometimes a little forced, and it is the moments of genuine emotion that come across more strongly. Lee has written a memoir of her glamorous grandmother Marguerite, who encouraged her fleeting London affair with Simon so long ago, and when she lets steadfast but rather boring husband Ben read it (once it's been published) and impulsively sends a copy to Simon, it churns up her whole life. The denouement is quietly touching if not entirely believable, and the portrait of Marguerite, clinging to her cherished luxuries, even as she sinks into desuetude, is skillfully composed of equal parts amusement and compassion. It's only in scenes like Lee's unhappy bookstore reading or the bestsellerdom envisaged for Ben's obsessive academic history of an obscure Maine patriarch that Medwed veers dangerously close to farce and seems in less than perfect control. A woman as bright as Lee would never settle for so threadbare a publisher for her memoir or be as excited as Medwed makes her out to be on publication day. But these are minor caveats in an enjoyable read that could provoke both smiles and tears.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0446530794
• ISBN 13: 9780446530798
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320