FROM THE PUBLISHER
Songs in Ordinary Time is set in the summer of 1960 - the last of quiet times and America's innocence. It centers on Marie Fermoyle, a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for the dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen - involved with a troubled young priest; Norm, sixteen - hotheaded and idealistic; and Benjy, twelve - isolated and misunderstood, and so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides the deadly truth only he knows about Duvall. Among a fascinating cast of characters we meet the children's alcoholic father, Sam Fermoyle, now living with his senile mother and embittered sister; Sam's meek brother-in-law, who makes anonymous "love" calls from the bathroom of his failing appliance store; and the Klubock family, who - in complete contrast to the Fermoyles - live an orderly life in the perfect house next door.

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Picked this up at the book exchange at BES to bookcross.

RELEASE NOTES:

Sending to Badgerjim in trade. I hope that your wife enjoys it. Thanks a lot for the trade.

This arrived today--thanks for the trade!

This is my wife's rating. She just finished with this 700+ page behemoth last night. The book, an Oprah selection, is set in Vermont in 1960 in a small town chock full of characters who make a phenomenal number of foolish or immoral choices in their lives. My wife got rather frustrated with the lot of them! She felt that the book was generally a bit depressing but well-written. However, she found the end unsatisfying and felt it left too many loose ends.

Thanks for trading it to us, wss4!

RELEASE NOTES:

I let this go last night at a Bookcrossers meeting about an hour southwest of where I live.