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ISBN: 0312322747

ISBN13: 9780312322748

Other People's Weddings

Name: Had me laughing out loud
Item: No News at Throat Lake
Rating: 5
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By Lawrence Donegan

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Book Overview

Laurie is a wedding photographer who has photographed more than a thousand weddings over the last ten years. One morning, when wakes up and wonders what happened to all those couples. She starts making calls. Some of them are still together. Others have split up. She begins a photography project to document what happens to love after the wedding. She photographs widowers and divorcees, homewreckers and stalkers. She is still photographing weddings, and at one of them she meets a man who has sneaked into the proceedings. A crasher. They share a spark, a few moments of powerful chemistry, and then he's gone. Later, at home, she finds pictures of him at eleven other weddings she's photographed and wonders if his propensity to crash weddings is sweet or creepy. She starts looking for him at every wedding she photographs. When she finally sees him again, a romance begins between them. Through her courtship, glimpses of her past emerge-her own first marriage and divorce, the things she is trying to get over, to get past, that threaten her new relationship. Her past makes her a ghost at all the weddings she photographs. Before the book is over, she has to tear down all the walls she has built.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0671785400

ISBN13:9780671785406

Release Date:April 2000

Publisher:Atria Books

Length:250 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.6" x 9.6"

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Rated 4 stars
Dearly Beloved...

By Thriftbooks.com User, February 23, 2005

this book is definitely worth reading! The author does an absolutely amazing job using the feminine voice and perspective. I was very impressed! The dialogue and mental chatter that the main character Laurie has is just so raw and real. It is not at all chick lit or fluff - which is what you would probably expect given the cover design. Laurie is a jaded wedding photographer. Having suffered her own heartbreaks in life,...

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Rated 4 stars
Bright Cover.. Dark Story

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 14, 2004

Despite the beautiful cover and engaging title, this book isn't romantic. At first, I thought the writer was a female, and I was pleased to find that a male did such a good job writing from the female perspective. The book is about failing romances. A wedding photographer - Laurie - lets us into her life and we follow her as she captures photos not only of weddings, but also of people who have broken up, divorcees, widowers,...

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Rated 4 stars
Great summer reading!

By Thriftbooks.com User, July 26, 2004

I ordered this book after our local paper did a review of books for summer reading. The title intrigued me as well as the plot. I found it most interesting that the author was a male writing in the viewpoint of a female. Laurie has photographed over 1,000 weddings - but what happened to them? Was it happily ever after? Laurie starts her quest to find out. We also get to peek into her life. Bits and pieces come out about...

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