Tear you apart
Record details
- ISBN: 0778314774 (paperback)
- ISBN: 9780778314776 (paperback) :
- ISBN: 0778314774 : PAP
- ISBN: 9780778314776 : PAP
- ISBN: 9780778314776
- ISBN: 0778314774
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Physical Description:
294 pages ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: Don Mills, Ontario : Harlequin Mira, [2013]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "Their passion will consume everything-- and everyone-- in its path ... ". I'm on a train. I don't know which stop I got on at I only know the train is going fast and the world outside becomes a blur. I should get off but I don't. The universe is playing a cosmic joke on me. Here I had my life a good life with everything a woman could want and suddenly there is something more I didn't know I could have. A chance for me to be satisfied and content and maybe even on occasion deliriously, amazingly, exuberantly, fulfilled. So this is where I am on a train that's out of control and I am not just a passenger. I'm the one shoveling the furnace full of coal to keep it going fast and faster. If I could make myself believe it all happened by chance and I couldn't help it, that I've been swept away, that it's not my fault, that it's fate-- would that be easier? The truth is, I didn't know I was looking for this until I found Will but I must've been, all this time. And now it is not random, it is not fate, it is not being swept away. This is my choice. And I don't know how to stop. Or even if I want to" -- from author's web site. |
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Subject: | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction Married people Fiction Adultery Fiction Contentment Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Interpersonal attraction Fiction |
Genre: | Love stories. |
Available copies
- 5 of 5 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Bethel Public Library | F HART (Text) | 34030128991707 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | F/HART (Text) | 34029129618137 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
North Branch - Bridgeport | FIC HART (Text) | 34000080797566 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Plumb Memorial Library - Shelton | FIC HART (Text) | 34025130474205 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Somers Public Library | FIC HAR (Text) | 34042124173834 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Publishers Weekly Review
Tear You Apart
Publishers Weekly
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Riveting, poignant, and powerful, this vividly erotic novel from bestselling women's fiction author Hart (Switch) explores the tempestuous collision of two lives and, unexpectedly, two hearts. Synesthetic art gallery staffer Elisabeth Amblin is a married middle-aged mother going through the motions of her life. When she meets artist Will Roberts, she realizes he fits perfectly and inexorably into the empty space in the center of her life-an emptiness she hadn't known was there. Though neither of them wants to be caught up in an affair, Will and Elisabeth also can't seem to wrench themselves apart. The unflinching realism and beautifully evoked synesthesia ("His voice... smelled and tasted like warm, oozing caramel") add texture to an engaging and touching story. This tale is no light read as it shifts among shattering passion, soul-rending pain, and deep emotional hollowness. Even readers who usually disdain infidelity stories will be pulled in by Elisabeth and Will's intense affair. Agent: Laura Bradford, Bradford Literary Agency. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
Tear You Apart
Kirkus Reviews
Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
A middle-aged married woman meets a photographer at a gallery opening and enters into an erotic affair, leading her to consider her current life and the moments in her past that led her to where she is. Elisabeth works at her best friend's art gallery, and openings are an everyday part of her life. Everything changes, however, when she meets photographer Will at the opening of his show. Before too long, they're involved in a passionate affair. Elisabeth is bored and unfulfilled in her marriage, and Will adds intensity and sensuality to her life. But he isn't relationship material, whereas Ross, her husband, may be disappointing, but he's steady, and leaving him would completely upend a comfortable life. Meanwhile, Elisabeth's twin daughters are just graduating from college and beginning their own "real lives," complete with fiances, wedding planning and professional anxieties. And her closest friends are going through life challenges. All of these events make Elisabeth contemplate her own choices and wonder what might have been. Or what could be. At the simplest level, this book is about a woman having a midlife crisis, being tempted by a sexy artist and revisiting some of the odd events of her life. However, Hart's beautiful use of language and discerning eye toward human experience elevate the book to a poignant reflection on the deepest yearnings of the human heart and the seductive temptation of passion in its many forms. Erotic, with elegant yet graphic descriptions of sex, the book explores one woman's dissatisfaction with her life and her ambivalence toward past and current choices. The storytelling is smooth, the characters textured and the plot compelling--though the use of first person, present tense at times seems to create an odd narrative distance, given the intimate subject matter. A gripping, lyrical journey into one woman's turning point in a life half lived.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.