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Stephen Lovely graduated from Kenyon College and attended the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He is the author of a novel, Irreplaceable, and the Director of the Iowa Young Writers' Studio. He lives in Iowa City.


I thought this novel was hilarious, and that Frankie Fitzgibbons, a formerly sedate home loan officer who goes on a manic rampage and commandeers a small town bank, was deliciously entertaining. The novel gets a bit tiresome, as it probably must, since Frankie's mania gives her such an inflated sense of her own command of language that she rants virtually nonstop throughout the novel, and she c... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.23 · 464 ratings · 148 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
Irreplaceable
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“She always used to suspect that the price for happiness, the price for enjoying the company of a person you loved, was the steadily increasing risk of losing them, and at times, when she considered the possibility that she might lose Isabel or Clancy or, in the early days, Todd, Bernice didn't think she could stand it, didn't think she could go on living in a universe whose laws forced her to submit to such a terrible fear. Now she sees what a small price it is to pay, what staggering joy she received in return. You should be willing to pay that price for as little as a few days or hours with a person you love, she thinks, rubbing her fingers across a patch of linoleum the years have worn down to a cloudy smear.”
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