Product Description
Fate can be benevolent.
Or incredibly cruel.
That's what Nick and Jane will learn...
Just take their relationship. Nick is stunningly handsome, the blue-eyed scion of a blue-blood New York family. Rich, talented, confident, he will become the world's most famous movie star. Jane is delightfully funny, a dark-skinned, dark-haired, half-Jewish, half-German daughter of the Midwest. Smart, gifted, loving, she will become famous in her own right as well... From the time they first meet in their Social and Intellectual History of the U.S. course at Brown University, it's love at first sight. Coming together from two very different worlds, they will cast off adversity and disapproval to forge a life filled with work, love, and children. But fame and success come at a high price--their marriage. Just when it seems the promise of their love might be renewed, an accident leaves Jane hovering between life and death. Now, it's not only their union that might not survive, but Jane too...Almost Paradise is vintage Susan Isaacs, a witty, poignant, and engrossing tale of a man, a woman, and a passion wondrous, heartbreaking, and unforgettable.
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Unusual ending for Ms. Isaacs
Rating  (4)
Date: 2004-09-20
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I simply love the way this author writes...and her insight into character personality development is brilliant. I've read all her books, every one of them being totally enjoyable. This book however, broke my heart. It's so close to reality for so many people. As Stephen King once said, "You sell a lot more books when the endings are happy." This book is the story of heritage, ancestry and some wonderful and despicable people. Tragedy strikes the most undeserving sometimes, and this is that story. The heroine Jane is a personality Ms. Isaacs must know intimately to write with so much insight into her emotions. I just wish she'd had a different ending to this wonderful book that traveled through so many lives. I loved her character Jane Cobleigh. It's worth the read...truly a good book.
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