The Widow's Guide to Sex and Dating Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Carole Radziwill
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
232

The Widow's Guide to Sex and Dating by Carole Radziwill Book Summary

"Radziwill's delicious debut novel… is a poignant tale of love and loss."—Publishers Weekly

"One of the richest, most deeply satisfying stories I've read in a long time."—BookPage

"Carole Radziwill writes like a cross between Sophie Kinsella and Christopher Buckley. Cautiously romantic, unexpectedly moving, and funny!"—Susan Sarandon

The Widow's Guide to Sex and Dating is Carole Radziwill's deliciously smart comedy about a famously widowed young New Yorker hell-bent on recapturing a kind of passionate love she never really had

Claire Byrne is a quirky and glamorous 34-year-old Manhattanite and the wife of a famous, slightly older man. Her husband, Charlie, is a renowned sexologist and writer. Equal parts Alfred Kinsey and Warren Beatty, Charlie is pompous yet charming, supportive yet unfaithful; he's a firm believer that sex and love can't coexist for long, and he does little to hide his affairs. Claire's life with Charlie is an always interesting if not deeply devoted one, until Charlie is struck dead one day on the sidewalk by a falling sculpture ... a Giacometti, no less!
Once a promising young writer, Claire had buried her ambitions to make room for Charlie's. After his death, she must reinvent herself. Over the course of a year, she sees a shrink (or two), visits an oracle, hires a "botanomanist," enjoys an erotic interlude (or ten), eats too little, drinks too much, dates a hockey player, dates a billionaire, dates an actor (not any actor either, but the handsome movie star every woman in the world fantasizes about dating). As she grieves for Charlie and searches for herself, she comes to realize that she has an opportunity to find something bigger than she had before—maybe even, possibly, love.

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Book Name The Widow's Guide to Sex and Dating
Genre Fiction & Literature
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Language English
E-Book Size 1.07 MB

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Unique, entertaining and slightly taxing. I really liked this novel. The writing is terrific, but my iPad claimed it was only 275pp and this felt like 400. The author doesn't write easy paragraphs, or sentences. I've gotten used to only reading beach-like reads on my iPad, and I knew I'd rather have this in paper but couldn't find it in the bookstores, and this is not the kind of easy read that works well to skim thru on a reader. This is story is going to be odd for many. Radziwill's writing, while intelligent, is also relaxed and relies on a string of pop culture references which makes it seem more mass-cultural appeal than it is, because, unfortunately!, there's not really much of a plot. Unlike a lot of the mass produced romance-style novels coming out, which have poor writing and poor character development and interiority, but a solid character plot, ironically (for all of Radziwill's discussion of fairy tales and 3 parts to a story's development) there's not really any story events. She's built a novel on characters' interior growth, and some crucial parts to that eventual happy ending are missing. It's a very decent first novel for someone, but it's obvious the author needs to reevaluate her genre or work on the genre's necessary plot events. Ultimately, the whole time I read this story I had a smirk on my face and even laughed out loud a few times. I like the allusions and I liked the character study. But I felt parts were rushed and crucial elements to the genre, and thus the story she was attempting, were missing.

So disappointing. I loved Carole's first book and was so looking forward to this novel. I found it difficult to get through the first 100 pages, where I finally gave up on the entire book. Sorry to say this is one of the most tedious books I've read in a very long time. I was expecting better.

A surprisingly great book!. I said surprisingly because of the author's present media activities. But I'm happy I got over my initial resistance to read a book by a reality tv whatever ( I hate using the star word when associated with reality tv). Carole is a great author and this book was worth the time.

What a great read!. Very enjoyable read, worth getting into and fun stories!

Widows Guide To Sex And Dating. Loved her first book. Could not get through this one.

The Widow's Guide to Sex and Dating. Really disappointing. Eagerly anticipated this book after reading last book.

Disappointed. I loved her first book, but this one fell flat. The book was over before it really developed. I'm so disappointed I really wanted to like this one. Ann M Seattle WA

Smart. It's noon on a beautiful Sunday. What a treat to lay in bed and enjoy such smart writing. It was such a wonderful departure from the other silly little books out there. Don't miss it.

Disappointed. So loved her first book. This one rambles a lot. Just disappointed.

Great read. Read it it's very good

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The The Widow's Guide to Sex and Dating book written by Carole Radziwill was published on 11 February 2014, Tuesday in the Fiction & Literature category. A total of 232 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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