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Jimmy's Girl
Jimmy's Girl
Author: Stephanie Gertler
Emily Hudson should be happy. She has achieved modest success as a painter and lives a good suburban life with her husband and four children. But one day, somewhere between the train schedules, orthodontist appointments, and bake sales, Emily stopped and remembered who she was when she was sixteen and how she felt when she found love with James ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780451205162
ISBN-10: 0451205162
Publication Date: 2/1/2002
Pages: 304
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  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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3.5 stars, based on 13 ratings
Publisher: Signet Book
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Should the past be left alone? In an assured debut, themed to situate its author alongside Waller and Sparks, Gertler answers this question as she focuses on former lovebirds Emily Hudson and Jim Moran. During the summer of '67, when she was just 16, Emily fell in love for the first time. Then life, in the form of Vietnam, separated her from Jim, a young Marine Corps recruit. Now, 30 years later, Emily is itching at the constraints of her Volvo-centric life in Connecticut. With four children and a husband who is never home, Emily begins to wonder: What if? Using the Internet, she locates Jim in Mobile, Ala. He is also married and has a child, but the two agree to meet at Washington's Vietnam War Memorial. Shifting from Emily's to Jim's perspective in alternating chapters, Gertler gamely, though with mixed results, endeavors to capture the past and present voices of each character. Examining Jim's experience of Vietnam and the resulting emotional fallout, Emily's and Jim's respective marriages and conflicting loyalties, and the world as it might have been if they had made a life for themselves together, Gertler weaves a winsome morality tale.
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This is the first book that I have read from this author and I was not disappointed! This book is great and a real page turner.
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Should the past be left alone? In an assured debut, themed to situate its author alongside Waller and Sparks, Gertler answers this question as she focuses on former lovebirds Emily Hudson and Jim Moran. During the summer of '67, when she was just 16, Emily fell in love for the first time. Then life, in the form of Vietnam, separated her from Jim, a young Marine Corps recruit. Now, 30 years later, Emily is itching at the constraints of her Volvo-centric life in Connecticut. With four children and a husband who is never home, Emily begins to wonder: What if? Using the Internet, she locates Jim in Mobile, Ala. He is also married and has a child, but the two agree to meet at Washington's Vietnam War Memorial. Shifting from Emily's to Jim's perspective in alternating chapters, Gertler gamely, though with mixed results, endeavors to capture the past and present voices of each character. Examining Jim's experience of Vietnam and the resulting emotional fallout, Emily's and Jim's respective marriages and conflicting loyalties, and the world as it might have been if they had made a life for themselves together, Gertler weaves a winsome morality tale. Despite the occasional longueur, this wish-fulfillment novel may tempt readers to go online and seek out their own first loves.


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