Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Beginner's Greek: A Novel

BEGINNER’S GREEK: James Collins: Little, Brown, and Co.: Fiction: 441 pages

Peter Russell is a romantic, and when Holly sits next to him on a flight from New York to Los Angeles, he knows that it’s love at first sight. Unfortunately, Peter loses Holly’s phone number and the two don’t meet again until Holly is reintroduced to Peter as his best friend Jonathan’s girlfriend. In the meantime, Peter’s boss is attempting to destroy him, Peter’s engaged to a dull but “proper” Francophile, Jonathan’s conducting multiple love affairs, and Peter still pines for Holly. Collins examines love and relationships in a story that twists and turns and entwines the lives of his characters around and through one another right up to the end, when everybody gets what’s coming to them.

MBC

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