Shoe Fetish [Paperback]

Sharon Bennett (Author), Beatrice Moore (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 5, 2002

SHOE FETISH is a casually written novella about three teenage girls as they stumble from puberty to adulthood, trying to come to terms with their true feelings and desires. Their knowledge of relationships was gained through failed, abusive, and socially unacceptable affairs. The young women equate some of these relationships with styles of shoes. In the odyssey of the relationship maze; torment, strength, insanity, love, and even death were found. The girls relationship with each other suffered years after college, but their friendships were rekindled at a twenty-year high-school reunion. However, no one would have guessed the turn this road would quickly take. The story is told through the eyes of its central character, Carmen Robertson. These three professional women endured some of life's greatest hardships during the spring of their lives.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A warmly uplifting version of the time-honored transition into womanhood. The ultimate empowerment, enduring heroine and entertaining reading. -- Ellen Tanner Marsh,New York Times best-selling author,romance novelist

About the Author

Sharon Bennett-is in the health care profession, and is an artist of poetry, writing, and oil painting. She has a bachelors of arts, and a bachelors of science degree. She currently resides in the Atlanta, GA area. Shoe Fetish is her third published work. First was a poem entitled: I Never Dreamed. It was published in True Reflections, and won the Library of Poetry’s 2001 Editor’s Choice award. Her second work was THE L.E. BENNETT STORY: Living the Dream. A biography about her father’s civil rights activities, and the ministry. Beatrice Moore (inset) is a former mathematics teacher and school administrator, who currently works as an independent mathematics consultant. She has authored numerous math textbooks, but has realized a lifelong dream of authoring fiction with the publication of Shoe Fetish. She is the proud parent of three children and resides in the Houston, TX metro area.

Product Details

• Paperback: 237 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (April 5, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588986713
• ISBN-13: 978-1588986719
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,967,820 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars **********DON'T BUY THIS BOOK USED****GET NEW!*******, August 26, 2006

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Sharon Kay Bennett "Shoe Fetish" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shoe Fetish (Paperback)

The quality & care of someone that's previously bought the book & is now reselling it, can't be gauranteed. I'm asking that you buy my books new, fresh from my publisher--Booksurge, if you want it in good condition....if you've received a damaged book,please return it for a refund********************Thank you! Sharon Bennett.

3.0 out of 5 stars Captivating, December 30, 2003

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S. Hudson "Avid Reader" (Tucker, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shoe Fetish (Paperback)

Guilty as charged, I am. I have a shoe fetish that wont quit. Next to books, shoes are the next things that get my money. I have it so bad a few shoe stores in the area, my regular stomping grounds, call me to let me know when they get new hip styles in through the back door so that I can cart them out through the front. Imagine my extreme pleasure when I saw a book I thought was written for other women such as myself, I couldnt wait to sit down and read this one. My pleasure mounted even higher when I really looked deeper into the book and found out that shoes are but a small aspect to this novella and then how shoes are representative of a number of different aspects in a womans life especially when it comes down to the man. Meet Carmen and her two friends TheLetter and Bethany. We meet them at their vulnerable adolescent years when each of them experiences things in life that no child should have to deal with.

As Shoe Fetish unfolds, we begin with the reunion of the ladies at their 20th high school reunion. The story is told as a remembrance of days gone by in each of their lives and comes full circle back to the present moment. We find that they meet in junior high and their friendship continues while each lady goes to college and becomes successful in a career and its good to see women doing their thing the right way in books today. However each woman has private torments that haunt her throughout adulthood. Carmen was raped as a teenager and finds it hard to trust or respect men. TheLetter has a giving spirit and a little money to go with and men mistake her giving for their own financial independence and bruise her spirit. Bethany is the free spirit of the bunch and the most grounded. Though they move apart and college obligations keep them separated they find time to meet once a month to party and shop. I like that, good practice amongst friends. As time moves on, their lives change but each stays involved with one another.
A quick read, the title had me thinking one way and the actual reading brought me full circle. We all have fetishes and they all represent some aspect of our lives that we want to see and live differently.

5.0 out of 5 stars FROM LAUGHTER TO TEARS, May 31, 2003

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K. Burnett "jeneyphil" (Marietta, Ga United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shoe Fetish (Paperback)

THE BOOK WAS AN ENJOYABLE READ. SHARON BENNETT-WILLIAMS AND BEATRICE MOORE-HARRIS DID A WONDERFUL JOB WITH THIS BOOK. THE CHARACTERS AND THE STORY LINE MADE ME LAUGH. THEY MADE ME CRY. THEY MADE ME REJOICE. THE POEMS IN BETWEEN WERE TRULLY INSPIRING. KUDOS TO A JOB WELL DONE. I WISH YOU MUCH SUCCESS.