Come Home, Love Dad [Paperback]

Shelly Reuben (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2000

COME HOME. LOVE,DAD combines the heart-warming and sometimes heart-breaking story of an eccentric and loving man with excerpts from letters that he wrote to his daughter, Edgar Award nominated crime novelist, Shelly Reuben. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll love this book.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"COME HOME. LOVE, DAD is written with the causal sweetness of unpremeditated love, and is therefore the more compelling." -- Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Author, Awarded Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America

"How refreshing to read a memoir by a daughter who adored her father, and a father who deserved to be!" -- Kathryn Kennison, Director, Magna cum Murder

"There's something akin to James Thurber about this... It's a funny, uplifting, honest book that I shall read and re-read..." -- Peter Lovesey, Recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger Lifetime Achievement Award

About the Author

Shelly Reuben is the author of Edgar award nominated JULIAN SOLO, and the arson-themed crime novels, ORIGIN AND CAUSE and SPENT MATCHES. COME HOME. LOVE, DAD is her first work of non-fiction. In real life, she is a private detective, licensed in both New York and New Jersey. She received her on-the-job training at fire scenes with her husband, a former supervising fire marshal for New York City, and has been investigating fires and arsons for over twenty years.

COME HOME. LOVE, DAD is an affectionate memoir of her father, a remarkable and endearing man.

Miss Reuben is currently working on a new crime novel with an arson theme.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Bernard Street Books.; 1 edition (November 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966286812
• ISBN-13: 978-0966286816
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,892,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars COME HOME, LOVE DAD smiles with love, January 23, 2001

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kitty hailey (cherry hill, nj USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Come Home, Love Dad (Paperback)

Not all families are disfunctional. In fact, Shelly Reuben proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt. What a wonderful portrait of a loving father as told through her eyes and through his own letters. Reuben paints a picture in words that creates images of a real father. One who lives in a houseful of love, surrounded by his five children, tolerant and loving wife, friends and crazy relatives. One readily sees why Reuben has selected words as her vocation. Her father created, plagerized, quoted and paraphrased the thought provoking guidence and evocative sentiments with which he communicated to his offspring. Written on stationary, or on the back of landlord-tenant court documents, these jewels of creative writing tell of a romantic soul. He is clearly adored, not for his incredible inventions or tenacity regarding real estate investments, but for his character, strength, concern and consideration. Those of us who can relate have surely had fathers of similar noble quality. Those who cannot fathom the beautiful relationships between father and child have missed an incredible experience. Reach back into childhood, read this and enjoy the experience.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Come Home, Love Dad review, November 30, 2000

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reader (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Come Home, Love Dad (Paperback)

If you want to read something that makes you feel good about life, read Shelly Reuben's book, Come Home Love Dad. With so many books flooding the market about serial killers and political espionage it's a pleasure to read something about an actual person that really touches you. Miss Reuben expertly uses narration as well as actual letters written by her father to gradually reveal his personality to the reader. I came to know a man who was an inventor, a landlord, and a salesman, but first and foremost - a father.