Cherry Love [Paperback]

Marcella Chester (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1888675500 | ISBN-13: 978-1888675504 | Publication Date: July 1996 | Edition: 1st

A frenzied, fast-paced slice-of-life that captures the joys and sorrows of one girl's journey to becoming a grown-up-woman. Where treachery often disguises itself as love.
Told with a candid voice fresher than your morning newspaper.

Editorial Reviews

Review

In Cherry Love, Marcella Chester presents a story of teenage love as it too often happens. Cindy Littleton is a feisty fifteen-year-old who is eager to experience life and love. Cindy rushes toward life at full speed. Trusting her older brother's friend, Rod Peterson, she enjoys her first taste of freedom in his arms. But that experience turns bitter as Rod forces himself on her. Confused, Cindy tries to decide what to do next. According to Rod, he was just expressing his love in the most natural way. Cindy emerges, hurt but determined to put the pain behind her. Set in Walla Walla, Washington during the early seventies. That turbulent era in American history comes alive again with everyone's theory on the truth behind the Watergate scandal. Cherry Love is a engaging story that will make you laugh and make you cry. It's a quick read, an eye opening learning experience and a journey to an unspoken part of America. While Cherry Love is sexually explicit, it is very deliberate in its inclusion. There is no profanity or gratuitous scenes included for sheer exploitation. In vivid detail it conveys to teens and adults alike the seriousness and consequences of date rape. -- Midwest Book Review

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The following two pages are taken from the foreword of Cherry Love:

Foreword
Cherry Love is a distortion of the truth.
Although the incidents recounted in the book that involve me actually occurred, they are presented in a way that makes certain of my actions more important and more negative than they really were
. Frankly, I am portrayed as a villain. Well, if I was a villain then so were a lot of other guys. And they bragged about it. I didn't do anything that unusual under the circumstances.
If Cindy could not take responsibility for her own actions that is her problem. It becomes my problem when the author implies that I was responsible for the actions of someone else.
As far as I am concerned the subject of this book is old news. Who cares what happened over twenty years ago? I don't and I don't think any readers will care either.
This is just one more example of the male-bashing that has become so popular. In no way am I endorsing this book or surrendering any rights to take legal action.

Rod Peterson
Hollywood, California

Foreword (part 2)
I have read and reread what Rod has written for the Foreword and it leaves me uneasy.
That a series of actions that haunt me to this day seems to have almost no impact on the person responsible is difficult to accept.

Every time I read a news story covering a situation similar to mine, the memories surface.
People are going to ask why I allowed this story to be told. It is because of one of those stories. I can no longer convince myself that attitudes have really changed in the last twenty years. I hoped to keep history from repeating itself.
People are also going to ask if I hate men. I don't. It was a man who helped me to put it behind me, although he didn't know it, still doesn't know it. Without him I don't know where I'd be today.

Cindy Littleton
Washington State

Product Details

• Paperback: 183 pages
• Publisher: Bookmen; 1st edition (July 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1888675500
• ISBN-13: 978-1888675504
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,802,387 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Girl Looking for Love... it happens too often., August 24, 2010

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I read this book several years ago and couldn't put it down. Marcella Chester really digs into some serious issues for girls, young women--all women.