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From Publishers Weekly
It's love on the run for Liza and Dan, who meet on the jogging trail around Central Park's reservoir. Liza is a 32-year-old up-and-coming business tycoon; Dan, a travel exec and married father of two, "filled with a yearning for something he could not define." Told in short, first-person reports by the major players (Liza, Dan, Dan's wife and sometimes Liza's mother), this trite domestic drama meanders through the protagonists' banal thought processes. Liza has bouts of conflict between love and work; Dan has attacks of conscience; and Maggie struggles to find herself and save her marriage. Parts of this novel appeared in New Woman magazine and Sakol has two previous nonfiction books to her credit. But these predictable characters in their cliched dilemmas don't work up enough suds for even a good soap opera.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
When happily married Dan and dedicated career woman Liza literally run into each other jogging in Central Park, it's instant lust, followed by talk of love and marriage. But there are complications, notably Dan's women (near-perfect ex-model wife, Maggie; beautiful daughters Jennifer and Sandi; and crusty travel business partner, Sonia) and burgeoning model agency Liza Central, which consumes its founder's time and energy. The affair is on-again, off-again, because of Dan's second thoughts, Jennifer's emergency appendectomy, Liza's second thoughts, Maggie's near breakdown . . . . With its New York flavor and energy, amplified by the story's being told by multiple voices from all points of view, this is a guilty pleasure of a book; you finish it because you can't stop, then forget how it ended hours later.
- Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., Va.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Genre: Romance
It's love on the run for Liza and Dan, who meet on the jogging trail around Central Park's reservoir. Liza is a 32-year-old up-and-coming business tycoon; Dan, a travel exec and married father of two, "filled with a yearning for something he could not define." Told in short, first-person reports by the major players (Liza, Dan, Dan's wife and sometimes Liza's mother), this trite domestic drama meanders through the protagonists' banal thought processes. Liza has bouts of conflict between love and work; Dan has attacks of conscience; and Maggie struggles to find herself and save her marriage. Parts of this novel appeared in New Woman magazine and Sakol has two previous nonfiction books to her credit. But these predictable characters in their cliched dilemmas don't work up enough suds for even a good soap opera.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
When happily married Dan and dedicated career woman Liza literally run into each other jogging in Central Park, it's instant lust, followed by talk of love and marriage. But there are complications, notably Dan's women (near-perfect ex-model wife, Maggie; beautiful daughters Jennifer and Sandi; and crusty travel business partner, Sonia) and burgeoning model agency Liza Central, which consumes its founder's time and energy. The affair is on-again, off-again, because of Dan's second thoughts, Jennifer's emergency appendectomy, Liza's second thoughts, Maggie's near breakdown . . . . With its New York flavor and energy, amplified by the story's being told by multiple voices from all points of view, this is a guilty pleasure of a book; you finish it because you can't stop, then forget how it ended hours later.
- Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., Va.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Genre: Romance
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