Until the Real Thing Comes Along: A Novel - Softcover

Berg, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 034543739X ISBN 13: 9780345437396

Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc., 2000

Synopsis

Until the Real Thing Comes along Now in paperback comes irresistible women's fiction from the bestselling author of "Talk Before Sleep". Rarely the bridesmaid and never the bride, Patty Hansen sells houses for a living, is desperate to be married and have a child, but is impossibly in love with the wrong man. Full description

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Review:

"Touching . . . [A] deft, sweet, and often comic novel."
--Chicago Tribune

"THIS NOVEL MAKES FOR PLEASANT READING . . . PATTY MURPHY IS APPEALINGLY VULNERABLE. . . . NOVELIST ELIZABETH BERG HAS AN ENGAGING VOICE AND STYLE."
--Los Angeles Times

"A PERCEPTIVE COMEDY OF MODERN MANNERS . . . At the end of each undemanding day, Patty goes home to an empty apartment and listens to her biological clock ticking as ominously as Captain Hook's crocodile. . . . Patty wants a husband and a baby, and not necessarily in that order. . . . But Patty has a problem. Try as she might, there is only one man she can love--her best friend, Ethan--and try as Ethan might, he is quite firmly and intractably gay. With rueful good humor, Until the Real Thing Comes Along shows how Patty and Ethan come to terms with the impossibility of having it all."
--The Boston Globe

"BERG WRITES WITH HUMOR AND UNDERSTANDING ABOUT MATTERS OF THE HEART. . . . The author's generous view of humanity is evident in her characters, who walk right off the page they are so well and truly drawn."
--St. Louis Post Dispatch

"ENTERTAINING . . . FLAWLESS DIALOGUE . . . READING IT IS LIKE EAVESDROPPING ON AN INTIMATE FEMALE CHAT."
--New York Daily News

"COMPELLING . . . [A] WARMLY TOLD TALE."
--People

Book Description:

Her biological clock is in overdrive. But she's in love with a gay man.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 034543739X
• ISBN 13: 9780345437396
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272