My Summer with George [Import] [Hardcover]

Marilyn French (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd (July 31, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 024113272X
• ISBN-13: 978-0241132722
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My Summer With George, June 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: My Summer With George (Paperback)

Marilyn French has captured a reality that so many women feel but would never admit. If women can't relate to Hermione, it's because they're still young with all their options intact. I personally know three woman whose names could easily be inserted into this story as Hermione. Sure, nowadays we're all liberated and free and smart and have self-respect and money and all that stuff, but the need for love and the guaranteed loneliness that sometimes haunts us, especially when the options are narrowing, are a reality. There are things that never change in the human soul. Why Hermione was attracted to George (and her subsequent flight of fancy) is one of them. These things never change regardless of our disdain or dislike for them. And Marilyn French has written about it like no other writer has dared.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books I've read these past years., February 12, 1998

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This review is from: My Summer with George (Hardcover)

It has been a great pleasure reading Ms.French's latest novel. The heroine's infatuation with George, the elusive "boyfriend" is narrated in such a fashion that one cannot help but feel all the frustrations Hermione goes through. Any woman over 40 will, I am sure, find this novel very uplifting all the same. I think it is a must read for French fans.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Non-Romance Novel Examines Romance, October 28, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: My Summer With George (Paperback)

"My Summer with George" is an ironic title for Marilyn French's latest novel in which Hermione Beldame does not spend the summer with George other than in her mind and conversation. George does come in and out of Hermione's life in New York City, but the novel is more about romantic love and its effects on sophisticated women than it is about actual romance. Hermione herself, a successful, spirited, sixty-something romance novelist, and the women in her life are as much or more interesting than George. They thoroughly discuss the role of romance in their lives. "My Summer with George" is actually a non-romance novel that examines how one woman is surprised by her longing for romance and relationship and lives more through the fantasy than the meager reality of it.