Beginner's Greek: A Novel | James Collins

Beginner's Greek: A Novel | James Collins | Fun and Witty

books:

Beginner's Greek: ...

	Beginner's Greek: A Novel James Collins Little, Brown and Company, 2008 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 121 reviews view larger image
	for more information click here

When Peter Russell finally meets the woman of his dreams he falls as madly in love as you can on a flight from New York to LA. Her name is Holly. She's achingly pretty with strawberry-blonde hair, and reads Thomas Mann for pleasure. She gives Peter her phone number on a page of The Magic Mountain, but in his room that night Peter finds the page is inexplicably, impossibly, enragingly...gone.
So begins the immensely entertaining story of Peter and his unrequited love for his best friend's girl; of Charlotte and her less-than-perfect marriage to a man in love with someone else; of Jonathan and his wicked and fateful debauchery; and of Holly, the impetus for it all. Along the way, there's the evil boss, the desirable temptress, miscommunications, misrepresentations, fiendish behavior, letters gone astray, and ultimately, an ending in which every character gets his due.
Both incisive and wonderfully funny, this is a brilliantly understated comedy of manners in which love lost is found again.

"James Collins has written a romantic, funny and insightful page turner about love in modern times, missed opportunities and the wheel of fate (with a blow-out!) that is so engaging and real, you will find it impossible to put down. Peter Russell is an everyman filled with longing, lust and good sense. I promise you will root for him as fate throws him curves aplenty on his path to true love. BEGINNER'S GREEK and Peter Russell are keepers."
-- Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Lucia, Lucia and Big Stone Gap (2008)

for more information click here

Dear James

Dear James,
I hope you read your reviews from time to time. I though your book was charming, well written and I enjoyed it from beginning to end. You have a very elegant prose style which suits the subject matter perfectly. This is actually the first book I have ever felt moved to review. Thank you for a lovely novel and I for one cannot wait for your next.

Fun and Witty

This is a delicious, witty romantic comedy. I felt like it could have been a terrific George Cukor movie. A great summer read.

reviews: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

products you might be interested in