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  <title><![CDATA[A Crack in Forever]]></title>
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  <default-description>A &lt;I&gt;Love Story&lt;/I&gt; for the '90s -- an entrancing novel of a couple united by the volcanic intensity of their passion and the inexorable reality of death, the only force that can separate them. &lt;P&gt; When Eric Moro first enters Alexandra Taylor's life, he is a medical student eager to earn fast money modeling; she is an artist quite accustomed to drawing men's nude bodies. Nothing, however, has prepared her for his reckless sensuality -- the wayward smile that speaks of mischief and an acute intelligence, the intimate candor that leaves her raw and exposed, the unquestioning love, unlike any she has ever known. &lt;P&gt; They enter into a relationship astonishing in its ferocity. But then a foolish act from Eric's past comes back to haunt them. Reality crashes in when he learns he has AIDS. He tries to push Alex out of his life, but she clings to him, unwilling to lose any of the time they might have left together. Inevitably, death will force them apart, yet ultimately it is death, and the struggle to endure and to fight, that will ensure love's survival -- in this moving debut by a gifted new novelist, who also is a doctor who specializes in working with AIDS patients. Not since &lt;I&gt;Love Story&lt;/I&gt; has a novel so unerringly delineated the emotional turbulence of young passion.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-month type="integer">3</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">1996</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>A Crack in Forever</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jeannie Brewer]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was bored while spending the weekend in a hotel and found this on one of their shelves.... Very sad novel, beautiful story though. Typical, in a way, but nice and sweet in its own way. Someone said it was, &quot;Like love story except with a different disease.&quot; No, it's not like &quot;Love St...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52814514">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book sparked my passion for reading, when I was way too young to be reading this book. ;o)  Because of this, I might dare say its definitely one of my favorite titles.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't think it was about HIV/AIDS so it came to be quite a shock, quite abit of sex in it. It did make me cry which was surpising. Love story with a sad end.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read it.  I can't tell you what it's about (except for a bit of a love story) as you'll want to keep guessing what the problem is.  Careful - a tear jerker.]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Any one who likes a weepy ]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book and deeply moving. I wont read it again as it was almost a little distressing. But I loved it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all time favs!<br/>I would love to see a movie version of this book!<br/>Gutwrenching love story!]]></body>
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    <review id="30300600">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very similar to Love Story.  Just a different disease and this time it's the guy who is dying.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Heart wrenching but one of my favorite books of all time.]]></body>
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