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Die-hard romantics will find it hard to resist John Burnham Schwartz's novel Claire Marvel. Reminiscent of Erich Segal's Love Story, this is the tale of a great yet tragic love, one foretold in the novel's first sentence: "There was before her and now there is after her, and that is the difference in my life." Boy (Julian Rose) meets beautiful girl (Claire Marvel) in a spring shower in 1985 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they attend Harvard as graduate students. They fall in love and spend a difficult yet idyllic time in the French countryside, but she is stolen away by Julian's treacherously suave advisor. Julian flees Boston for his hometown of New York City, where he starts a new life. He and Claire encounter each other again years later, and eventually Claire comes back to Julian, but only indirectly, again in France. --Susan Biskeborn --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Not since Love Story wallowed shamelessly in schmaltz has a novel cast such a sentimental haze over college romance as this third novel by Schwartz (Bicycle Days; Reservation Road). Julian Rose, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Harvard in the '80s, is at the beginning of what might be a brilliant career, having just signed on as assistant to his dissertation adviser, Carl Davis, a schmoozer with the powers that be in the Reagan administration. On the way to his first official meeting with Davis, Julian is caught in a downpour and offered shelter under an umbrella by Claire Marvel, a lovely if capricious art history student. Claire, whose father is dying of cancer, is in no shape to begin a relationship, but she and Julian slowly drift toward each other. A stay in a country house in France is the highlight of their time together, but a series of misunderstandings causes things to go downhill, until Julian catches Davis and Claire together. The unthinkable happens: she marries Davis. Even her marriage can't keep Julian and Claire apart, but when Claire discovers she is pregnant with Davis's child, Julian decides he must leave her for good. Retreating to New York City, where he grew up, he embarks on a career teaching political science at his old prep school and marries another woman, the cool, safe Laura. He meets Claire once in 11 years; one day he hears of her death. Schwartz's tearjerker plot is delivered in velvety, sometimes unctuous prose, and the progress of its protagonists' star-crossed love is contrived, but Schwartz rescues his novel from burnished banality with a number of small, spot-on observations that briefly and unexpectedly lift the story above its conventional moorings. Author tour. (Feb. 19)
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Die-hard romantics will find it hard to resist John Burnham Schwartz's novel Claire Marvel. Reminiscent of Erich Segal's Love Story, this is the tale of a great yet tragic love, one foretold in the novel's first sentence: "There was before her and now there is after her, and that is the difference in my life." Boy (Julian Rose) meets beautiful girl (Claire Marvel) in a spring shower in 1985 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they attend Harvard as graduate students. They fall in love and spend a difficult yet idyllic time in the French countryside, but she is stolen away by Julian's treacherously suave advisor. Julian flees Boston for his hometown of New York City, where he starts a new life. He and Claire encounter each other again years later, and eventually Claire comes back to Julian, but only indirectly, again in France. --Susan Biskeborn --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Not since Love Story wallowed shamelessly in schmaltz has a novel cast such a sentimental haze over college romance as this third novel by Schwartz (Bicycle Days; Reservation Road). Julian Rose, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Harvard in the '80s, is at the beginning of what might be a brilliant career, having just signed on as assistant to his dissertation adviser, Carl Davis, a schmoozer with the powers that be in the Reagan administration. On the way to his first official meeting with Davis, Julian is caught in a downpour and offered shelter under an umbrella by Claire Marvel, a lovely if capricious art history student. Claire, whose father is dying of cancer, is in no shape to begin a relationship, but she and Julian slowly drift toward each other. A stay in a country house in France is the highlight of their time together, but a series of misunderstandings causes things to go downhill, until Julian catches Davis and Claire together. The unthinkable happens: she marries Davis. Even her marriage can't keep Julian and Claire apart, but when Claire discovers she is pregnant with Davis's child, Julian decides he must leave her for good. Retreating to New York City, where he grew up, he embarks on a career teaching political science at his old prep school and marries another woman, the cool, safe Laura. He meets Claire once in 11 years; one day he hears of her death. Schwartz's tearjerker plot is delivered in velvety, sometimes unctuous prose, and the progress of its protagonists' star-crossed love is contrived, but Schwartz rescues his novel from burnished banality with a number of small, spot-on observations that briefly and unexpectedly lift the story above its conventional moorings. Author tour. (Feb. 19)
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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