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Ex-cottagers In Love

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Ex-cottagers In Love

by J M KEARNS

Key Porter Books | June 3, 2011 | Trade Paperback

Dave Moore, 41, is an ex-pat Canadian who is doing just great at all the things he never wanted to do, like living in L.A. and slaving at a giant law firm, while his creative dream nears its expiration date. That''s when he falls hard for a beautiful co-worker named Maggie, an impish, edgy goddess who sees right into his soul.

So he takes her to the beloved summer cottage of his Canadian youth. Well, not quite. That cottage was sold... but hey, you can see it from the rental place. Which won''t stop Dave from trying to summon the past; but will city girl Maggie, beleaguered by her fear of chamberpots and the natural world, desert him in his quest?

As the story returns to L.A., events close in on Dave. Besieged by his increasingly unbearable day-job and by unresolved issues with his ailing father, he is forced to make a momentous choice: is Maggie the destroyer of his dreams, or is she his only hope?

A brilliant, darkly comic novel about a middle-aged man at a crossroads, ex-Cottagers in Love takes the reader on an unforgettable journey from the playful and romantic to deeper, sadder but ultimately more luminous places.

Praise for ex-Cottagers in Love:

"Kearns knows how to craft an evocative passage...the prose sings."
-Danielle Groen, The Globe and Mail

"Will do you proud...We checked with Kearns` publisher: you are allowed to be a current cottager and read his darkly humorous life-, love- and career-crisis novel, ex-Cottagers in Love. You are also allowed to read it if you are not a cottager or not in love. Did we mention that it`s set in cottage country?" -The Toronto Star

"Ex-Cottagers in Love is irresistible. The type of post-modern LadLit that is seldom celebrated as sharply as it should be... He''s the real deal."
- Linda L. Richards, January Magazine

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    Rating: 4/5

    Remembrance of summers past

    posthumouse

    4 years ago

    This is a first novel by an already best-selling author of non-fiction and it is an enjoyable one.
    Dave Moore, 40, is frustrated by the limits of his job as a paralegal at an L.A. firm and wonders whether his beautiful and inciteful new girlfriend will be the end of his dream to write and record music or his best hope for the future. He takes her home to Canada to meet his family who've rented a cottage in the Muskoka region of Ontario. In fact, they spent all their summers in the family cottage that is now sold and everyone regrets the loss, no one more than his 13 year old nephew George and Dave himself who calls the island setting "the place he loved most in the world". Maggie's not an outdoors sort of woman, she doesn't understand their deep attachment to the memories of the old place and things do not go perfectly for the new couple, though Maggie does her best to make friends with everyone.
    Back in L.A. he has major decisions to make about his job and his future with Maggie when his father in Canada has a stroke and adds to his worries. Darkly humorous, the story follows both the lighter moments and the sadder ones for Dave, and in a somewhat parallell story, young George and his grandfather back home. The story is more serious than the title first suggested to me and I'm glad of it. I liked these characters and hope that Kearns writes more fiction because he does it well.

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    Rating: 1/5

    disappointing

    domestic goddess

    4 years ago

    I sloughed through the book and had acouple chapters to go and at that point knew it could not redeem itself. The book was disjointed and the characters seemed very shallow.

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Dave Moore, 41, is an ex-pat Canadian who is doing just great at all the things he never wanted to do, like living in L.A. and slaving at a giant law firm, while his creative dream nears its expiration date. That''s when he falls hard for a beautiful co-worker named Maggie, an impish, edgy goddess who sees right into his soul.

So he takes her to the beloved summer cottage of his Canadian youth. Well, not quite. That cottage was sold... but hey, you can see it from the rental place. Which won''t stop Dave from trying to summon the past; but will city girl Maggie, beleaguered by her fear of chamberpots and the natural world, desert him in his quest?

As the story returns to L.A., events close in on Dave. Besieged by his increasingly unbearable day-job and by unresolved issues with his ailing father, he is forced to make a momentous choice: is Maggie the destroyer of his dreams, or is she his only hope?

A brilliant, darkly comic novel about a middle-aged man at a crossroads, ex-Cottagers in Love takes the reader on an unforgettable journey from the playful and romantic to deeper, sadder but ultimately more luminous places.

Praise for ex-Cottagers in Love:

"Kearns knows how to craft an evocative passage...the prose sings."
-Danielle Groen, The Globe and Mail

"Will do you proud...We checked with Kearns` publisher: you are allowed to be a current cottager and read his darkly humorous life-, love- and career-crisis novel, ex-Cottagers in Love. You are also allowed to read it if you are not a cottager or not in love. Did we mention that it`s set in cottage country?" -The Toronto Star

"Ex-Cottagers in Love is irresistible. The type of post-modern LadLit that is seldom celebrated as sharply as it should be... He''s the real deal."
- Linda L. Richards, January Magazine

About the Author


J.M. KEARNS grew up in Ontario, Canada, where he developed a passion for lakes and literature. He is a best-selling author of non-fiction and an indie music maven in Nashville, Tennessee, where he resides.
Ex-Cottagers in Love is his first novel.

Trade Paperback

384 Pages, 5.3 x 8 x 1.1 in

June 3, 2011

Key Porter Books

English


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9781554700004

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