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Much Younger Man
Aly is a thirty-five-year-old high-school English teacher, recently divorced. One day, after school instead of driving home she takes the train and she meets Tom. His mother, once Aly's schoolmate, is now a successful college professor. They have grown apart, but Aly still considers her to be her best friend. After this first accidental encounter, Tom and Aly meet again, a...more
Paperback, 214 pages
Published
July 1st 2003
by Soho Press
(first published 1998)
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Some stories we read and given the blurb, we know how it will turn out.
Then there are books that are written so economically, so precise and with so much poetry, you enjoy the “making” of the plot more than how the story ends.
I say this because I read A Much Younger Man, and enjoyed the smallness of the book- only 214 pages to be exact.
The title seemed so taboo, so romantic. I picked it up and read it all in one day. Here’s some background(WITH SOME SPOILERS)
Aly is thirty five and teaches Englis...more
Then there are books that are written so economically, so precise and with so much poetry, you enjoy the “making” of the plot more than how the story ends.
I say this because I read A Much Younger Man, and enjoyed the smallness of the book- only 214 pages to be exact.
The title seemed so taboo, so romantic. I picked it up and read it all in one day. Here’s some background(WITH SOME SPOILERS)
Aly is thirty five and teaches Englis...more
I was totally intrigued by the number of favorable reviews this book has received, given the subject matter is one that perhaps the majority of readers would find, on the surface, distasteful. Surprisingly, the praise for A Much Younger Man is not unfounded, as the author handled the relationship between Alyson & Tom very delicately, easing the reader into a relationship probably deemed taboo by the majority of civilized society. I mean, seriously, how many love stories have you read where y...more
Hard to peg this one. The subject matter of course is a little uncomfortable but so was the author's writing style. I just can't put my finger on it--it seemed so fragmented and incomplete. Otherwise, I can't really say much about the book. Perhaps I was hoping for a real zinger like the movie "Notes on a Scandal" based on the book by Zoe Heller (which I haven't read) and found this story falling far short by comparison.
This book reads like the wet dream of a woman deep in the throes of a midlife crisis - and really, I'm all about the nontraditional romances, so you have to fail pretty hard to make me give up in disgust at a story like this. But it was just... so... lame.
Beautiful book. I believed in the characters and wanted them to be together even though she was twice his age. It's rating is between a PG-13 and R (just so you're not surprised, lol)
Read it after reading this author's second book, which I enjoyed. Also wanted to understand such a relationship. Well written in a sensitive way.
Dec 06, 2011
Ioanna
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This book is one of my "Great Guilty Pleasures" titles. A Lolita for women! A 30 something year old teacher has an intense affair with her best friend's 16 year old son (Don't worry TOO much, in this book 16 is the legal age of consent)It's actually as sweet book and the characters have a lot of depth to them. Even though it is all sorts of wrong, it's such an emotional read and the characters were so sympathetic and realistic. I would not condone the events in this book in real life, but it rea...more
The story revolves around a 35 year old teacher and her blossoming love relationship with her friend's 16 year old son. Very true-to-life, the novel handles such delicate subject matter in a sensitive and unique way. Great character development.
The relationship is illegal and inappropriate and the fact that she tries to justify it to herself makes me hate her even more
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