Late Bloomer

Melissa Pritchard

ISBN 10: 0786267550 / ISBN 13: 9780786267552

Published by Doubleday, 2004

About this Item

New York: Doubleday [2004]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine/Fine. Signed by author on title page and dated in March 2014. A nice tight copy. Defect free, smoke-free. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Late Bloomer
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786267550
• ISBN 13: 9780786267552
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The award-winning, widely praised author of Disappearing Ingenue is at the top of her form in this witty, wickedly funny novel about a romance writer whose real life begins to outpace the wildest flights of her imagination.

After one failed marriage and numerous dating disasters, Prudence True Parker teaches Advanced Personal Journey at a community college in Arizona. Prudence’s own personal journey has led to a mountain of debts, and she is beginning to feel desperate. Salvation comes at the local library, where she meets Digby Deeds (alias Mildred Crawley), the author of the Savage Passion romance series. Nearing the end of his life, Digby is looking for someone to keep Savage Passion alive and offers Prudence the final forty plots of the wildly popular series. Moved more by financial desperation than literary aspiration, she reluctantly accepts the bequest.
Just after taking on the project, Prudence’s friendly local psychic foresees the arrival of a romantic stranger in her life. The prediction comes true with startling speed: At a Native American charity event in Oklahoma, Prudence is swept off her feet by a mysterious young Comanche artist, Ray Chasing Hawk. A month later, Ray shows up on her doorstep. Fired by the irresistible desires their affair awakens, Prudence begins writing her first Native American romance. Real life gives her plenty of inspiration for her fictional plot and her home fills to overflowing with visitors, including Native American activists, medicine men, and wolves. In a hilarious, totally satisfying conclusion, the pieces of her life fall into place at the annual Romance Writers Convention in Houston, Texas.

Smartly written and laugh-out-loud funny, Late Bloomer is a high-spirited tale of romance, captivity, and savage love women of all ages will relish.

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Review

"Hilarious. . . . Pritchard is a rambunctious, witty writer, devilishly attuned to details and pop culture." --"Chicago Tribune"
"Ravishing." -"Vanity Fair
""Sharply written. . . . Offers cutting insight into the place of aging women in society, the definition of manliness and the dance of courtship itself." -"The Washington Post
""Absolutely fresh. [Pritchard's] language snaps with newness, sharp detail and goofy humor. . . . Prudence True Parker is a magnificent character." -"The Journal News
""A brilliant mix of romance and satire. . . . Pritchard's quicksilver ability to blend biting social/political commentary with a rueful analysis of relationships makes this lesson in true romance an absolutely sage-scented delight." -"Publishers Weekly "(starred)