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  1 That Part Was True
Author: McKinlay, Deborah
 
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Class: Fiction
Age: Adult
Language: English
LC: PR6113.C
Print Run: 250000
ISBN-13: 9781455573653
LCCN: 2013017540
Imprint: Grand Central Publishing
Pub Date: 02/04/2014
Availability: Out of Stock Indefinitely
List: $24.00
  Hardcover
Physical Description: 228 pages ; 22 cm H 8.75", W 6", D 1", 0.78 lbs.
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Brodart Sources: Brodart's Insight Catalog: Adult
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TIPS Subjects: Domestic Fiction
BISAC Subjects: FICTION / Family Life / General
FICTION / Women
LC Subjects: Authors, American, Fiction
Domestic fiction
Fan mail, Fiction
Friendship, Fiction
SEARS Subjects: American authors, Fiction
Domestic fiction
Friendship, Fiction
Letters, Fiction
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Brodart's TOP Adult Titles | 10/01/2013
Unexpected solace from writer Jackson Cooper leads to a mutual friendship between the writer and Eve Petworth, but when the two plan a Paris meeting after helping each other through life's various struggles, a fearful Eve starts to question whether such a meeting is even possible. 240pp., 250K, Auth res: South West England
Journal Reviews
Kirkus Reviews | 12/15/2013
British novelist McKinlay (The View from Here, 2011) offers a not-quite love affair through letters and emails between a wildly successful American writer and a lonely, well-to-do British woman. Long-divorced Eve Petworth has lived a reclusive if privileged life (driving a Bentley and never holding a job) in the English countryside. Shy and prone to anxiety attacks, she relinquished much of the control over her daughter Izzy's upbringing to her overpowering mother, Virginia. With the grown-up Izzy now engaged to marry and Virginia recently deceased, Eve potters about her beautiful house gardening and cooking; her only friend is her housekeeper. Eve seems an unlikely fan of popular American author Jackson Cooper's macho detective novels, but she appreciates the sensual way he writes about food and sends him a letter to say so. Approaching 50 and recently divorced for the second time, Jack is emotionally shaky and having trouble starting his next novel. Attracted to Eve's straightforwardness and love of food, he responds to her note, and a correspondence begins. The letters and emails, full of culinary conversation and ruminations on the human condition, offer Eve and Jack both a respite as each faces his or her own separate crisis. Jack, who has a Filipino houseboy for his house in the Hamptons and whose best friend is an actor named Dex, seems a British fantasy of American literary hunkiness--readers are repeatedly assured how well-written his best-sellers are. Nevertheless, Jack, who, while corresponding with Eve, has begun a doomed romance with beautiful ice princess Adrienne, is beset by midlife self-doubt. Meanwhile, Eve faces difficult truths about her relationship with Izzy, who has reconnected with her father, Simon, who turns out not to be an evil ex after all. Early on, before their epistolary intimacy deepens, Jack suggests he and Eve meet for a culinary rendezvous in Paris, a romantic fantasy that may or may not come to fruition. While mousy Eve and sensitive Marlborough Man Jack never quite grab the reader's imagination, McKinlay wisely eschews easy romantic cliches. 240pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013.
Library Journal Prepub Alert | 08/26/2013
British author McKinlay has written a half-dozen nonfiction books, but this is her fiction debut-and it's being given a big shove, with a 250,000-copy first printing and a big galley giveaway at BookExpo America. When shy British woman Eve Petworth writes American author Jackson Cooper, they strike up a friendship that starts with culinary interests that soon leads to shared concern over Eve's engaged daughter and Jackson's disappointments in love. Harking to another of its big commercial titles, the publisher is emphasizing the Bridges of Madison County feel. 240p. LJ Prepub Alert Online Review. LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2013.
Publishers Weekly | 11/11/2013
McKinlay's latest (after 2011's The View From Here) finds a bestselling American novelist connecting with one of his British fans as he nears his 50th birthday and she anticipates her daughter's wedding. Jackson Cooper, who fancies himself a man's man, lashes out at the women around him after his wife leaves him for a woman. He's suffering from writer's block and the feeling that he hasn't penned anything important. Jack has turned his creative impulses toward cooking, but the beautiful, well-meaning vegetarian he's dating doesn't appreciate any of it. He shares his love of food with Eve Petworth, whose mean late mother, Virginia, still casts a shadow over her life in the form of Eve's brash daughter Izzy, whom Virginia raised. When an engaged-to-be-married Izzy contacts her estranged father Simon, it exacerbates Eve's anxiety disorder. Both Eve and Jack are idle and rich, as evidenced by their free time and many mentions of their maids cleaning up in the background. They romanticize one another and claim that their meager letters and recipe exchanges serve as stress relief. Jack tries to get Eve to meet him in Paris every now and then, but unbeknownst to him, her condition prevents it. Readers will appreciate the way McKinlay captures emotional truths, but the puerility of her protagonists often hinders enjoyment. (Feb.). 240p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2013.
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New York Times Book Review | 02/09/2014