- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (7 Oct 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141013788
- ISBN-13: 978-0141013787
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 965,632 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a sassy, fresh and hilarious debut novel for anyone who's ever lost a man, discovered great sex or found the perfect romance. When Alison sends her boyfriend Tom out in the middle of a dinner party to buy Dijon mustard, the last thing she expects is his phone call telling her that he isn't coming back, not now, not ever. While Alison tries to figure out where she went wrong with Tom, she realises she has some serious catching up to do and that when freedom beckons, you'd be mad not to follow. After all, of the two men she's slept with, one was gay and one was Tom. She's got a handsome new boss, decades of evangelical guilt to offload and an urge to have undefined-yet-presumably-meaningless sex with the aforementioned boss. But is this enough? And if Tom isn't the Big Love, who on earth is?
About the Author
Sarah Dunn was the executive story editor for Spin City. She lives in New York City and The Big Love is her first novel.
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TO BE FAIR TO HIM, THERE IS PROBABLY NO WAY THAT TOM could have left that would have made me happy. Read the first page
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TO BE FAIR TO HIM, THERE IS PROBABLY NO WAY THAT TOM could have left that would have made me happy. Read the first page
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Best Chick Lit
11 July 2004
Format:Hardcover
While I love reading "single thirtysomething women in the big city books" the genre has been SO overdone.
As a result you get books that are trying to hard to be witty ( most recently, Bergdorf Blondes) or poorly written (most recently, Bergdorf Blondes).
As a result you get books that are trying to hard to be witty ( most recently, Bergdorf Blondes) or poorly written (most recently, Bergdorf Blondes).
Big Love is a refreshing change - the writing is smooth and seamless, the story is engaging (unlike The Devil Wears Prada), and it is laugh out loud funny.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Wonderful read
18 Aug 2004
Format:Hardcover
From the first chapter, this book has you curious about this just dumped, former fundamentalist Christian woman who has only slept with two men in her life - one of them gay. Talk about a multi-faceted character. I'm not usually a big fan of lots of exposition, and this book has more exposition than dialog, lots more, but it works.
15 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Big Waste, No Love
6 Jun 2005
Format:Hardcover
Was this book supposed to be humorous? I did not laugh one time, and the neurotic nature of the main character was not different than other chick lit characters that I have read before. After reading the glowing reviews, I really wanted to love this book, but somehow it just fell short. Allison was a likeable character, but her constant dialogue about her childhood religion and sex got really boring after awhile. I kept looking for some redeeming quality about this novel, but it continued to fall short of expectations. Also, do chick lit heroines ever do anything beside be a) novelists or b) columnists for local/alternative newspapers? Author alert- it is just plain lazy to think that every character is Carrie Bradshaw- that is the easy way out. Write more original characters- it might actually add some much needed character dimension.
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