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Summary: Can't wait for the next one!!
Review: Cassandra King has written a marvelous story about a subject she knew very well...a demanding husband and an unhappy marriage. The Sunday Wife is a perfect southern novel about imperfect people in an imperfect world. It is thoroughly entertaining with so many twists it is impossible to put it down. I look forward to more from this new author.
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Summary: The Best Book I've Read inYears
Review: It is easy to see why this book is currently #28 on the
New York Time's Best Seller List! It is one of the best books
I have read in years!
For any woman that has been in an unhappy relationship and needed
to make changes in her life this book could be seen as a catalyst
for that transformation. The main character, Dean Lynch, catches your heart and won't let go! This was a book I could not put down
and stayed up all night reading! It is a true winner!
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Summary: Unputtdownable
Review: I haven't had so much trouble putting a book aside so I could go to bed since Susan Isaacs' After All These Years. The Sunday Wife is a delicious read, full of home truths about big subjects, touching, believable truly memorable. Susan Isaacs fans will love it, fans of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood will love it, Susan Howatch fans will love it. The most unusual of treats, a smart page-turner that's about something important. Wow.
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Summary: A good Sunday afternoon read
Review: "The Sunday Wife" is set in the redneck South, but has a universal theme. Dean Lynch, the protagonist, is a kind but insecure woman stuggling to find her identity as the wife of a self-righteous, but charming, local preacher. She then meets Augusta, a wild Southern beauty who appears to have everything in life, including a reckless drive for confrontation and self-assertion. Augusta is Dean's anti-matter, and when the two get together, a chain reaction is initiated with disastrous, then ultimately triumphant, consequences. This book, which alternates between outrageous humor and dark imagery, is for anyone who wants to see what it is like to live a life different from their own (how many of us know what it is like to be the preacher's wife in the Bible belt?) It is also for anyone who had to struggle to find themselves, and didn't succeed until later in life. Plus, it is just plain fun to read. Last advice: don't expect to read this book for several days if you are going on a long trip, I finished it in only 3 (sleepless) nights!
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Summary: Move Over, Harper Lee
Review: Here's a true heir to the literary landscape of Harper Lee and Truman Capote. Alabaman Cassandra King has written a beautiful, heartfelt story of what it's like to be an outsider trying to get along in a world where all the rules are made up by the wrong people. She brings a rare sensitivity and eloquence to telling the untold story of legions of women like Dean who serve faithfully, in the tradition of the Biblical Marthas and Marys, with little thanks or recognition, but who possess all the real courage and strength behind the pulpit when it's revealed -- as it always is, world without end, amen -- that their husband's are babies, the collection plate's empty, and the Ladies Auxiliary's gone home.
I loved this book. May Cassandra King write many more.
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Summary: The life of a marriage
Review: As THE SUNDAY WIFE opens, Dean Lynch is a woman on the run, disappearing after a score of years married to a preacher man on the rise to bishophood, & she is remembering what drove her away & why she has landed in a friend's cottage on the Gulf Coast of Florida.While THE SUNDAY WIFE is not my usual fare - I'm not big on deceit among spouses, domestic imbroglios, & silver-tongued men of religion, Cassandra King has written a surefire pot-boiler filled with secrets, memories, moments of intense discomfort, adventures, & a woman on the verge of discovering herself. A well written, absorbing womanly read!
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Summary: negative reviews here are lame
Review: I couldn't put this book down and found the characters very believable and far from being one-dimensional. The negative reviews of this book seem to be very lame. Many of the negative reviews are from people who read the book because Cassandra King is married to Pat Conroy. Humph, and then complained because it wasn't written like a Pat Conroy novel ! ?! Some of the negative reviews left me wondering if the reviewers even read the book, and if they read the book, how they couldn't help but draw similarities between the characters in the book and those we meet in real life.
Some negative reviewers here felt Ben, Dean's minister husband, to be underdeveloped as a character in this book. I think his portrayal in the book is perfect, real characters such as Ben live one-dimensional lives. They live only for themselves and other people that come in and out of their lives have very little influence on such characters. Failing to develop this character was certainly not an oversight of this author, Cassandra King, I'm sure it was an intentional representation of just such a character.
Just as the "Bens" of this world exist, so too, do the "Deans" of this world and usually they find each other. Unlike real life, many "Deans" never find an "Augusta" to come along and save them. I loved King's Augusta character and found her to be a combination of a couple of my close friends. I was so annoyed with one reviewer's comments about the "unbelievable" characters in this story; I couldn't help but wonder if this person lived a one-dimensional life. The reviewer found it hard to believe that Dean stayed with Ben for 20 years. Here is the exact quote: "I gather that she stayed with Ben for 20 years because of her background and her current situation as a verbally abused wife. Sorry, again this wasn't fleshed out. " King hardly needs to "flesh out" such truths for us, real life consistently forces women like Dean to remain in unfulfilling relationships. Dean had no skills; her husband certainly never encouraged her to venture far from his side. She didn't have the money to educate herself and have a career, which in turn, would have given her a way out. She had no relationships, other than her friendship with Augusta, to find the strength and where withal to even begin to find her own way. It's more unbelievable that women like Dean ever break free of such dismal marriages, than it is unbelievable that she stayed in such a relationship.
This book captivated me from the beginning to end and knowing how it would probably end didn't stop me from enjoying the page-turning events along the way. I heartily recommend this book and hope that the negative reviews here don't stop you from missing out on a story that will make you both laugh out loud and cry in sadness. What more could you ask of a book ?
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Summary: Enjoyable
Review: I really liked this book. I don't understand buying a book because the author is married to another author you like, then griping about it being disappointing. If you want Conroy, buy his books. Ahem. But I digress.
Dean is married to a man of God who is anything but angelic and happens upon a town of gossips and people to gossip about. She befriends Augusta who is a free spirit with a past that enables her to make a connection with Dean. Dean discovers herself and how she's sold herself short on life just in the nick of time.
I found the book entertaining, fell in love with the little boy, Gus, and wished at times I had a friend like Augusta who would draw attention to the times I was in jeopardy of selling out.
It's a good read.
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Summary: This is awful
Review: I can't even finish the book. The writing is terrible..quite juvenile. I bought it because it was recommended in Oprah magazine and I mistakenly assumed it would be quality. It's boring and the plot is weak. Sorry to say it!
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Summary: The Sunday Wife
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and had trouble putting it down. If you are looking for depth, read WAR AND PEACE. If, however, you are looking for a good read, I highly recommend this book. I'm surprised that it's taken me so long to "discover" this author, and had no idea she is married to Pat Conroy. I tripped over this book purely by accident. Now, I am looking for other books she's written.
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