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Chloe Zhivago's Recipe for Marriage and Mischief
Olivia Lichtenstein
Ballantine Books
June 2007
On Sale: June 5, 2007
Featuring: Chloe Zhivago
320 pages
ISBN: 0345495756
EAN: 9780345495754
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction
Here’s the perfect recipe for mischief: Take one sexually
neglected woman and one dashing, romantic foreigner (with a
delectable accent). Add a craving for adventure plus a few
drops of heady desire . . . then stand back, because in
Olivia Lichtenstein’s sparkling and sharply observed comedy
of lust, longing, and marital unrest, this mix proves to be
deliciously volatile.
Chloe Zhivago has it all: a
successful career, two teenage children who still speak to
her, a faithful best buddy, a Famous Friend from hell (so
decadently self-indulgent that one can’t help but admire her
and hate her at the same time), and Greg, her husband of
seventeen years, a family-practice doctor who has the
annoying habit of hiding the teakettle (to keep his memory
sharp) and who occupies his time writing letters to the
parking commission.
And then it suddenly hits her. Is
this all there is? When did wild weekends of passion become
nights of chaste kisses and snoring to wake the dead? Will
she ever savor sweet whispers of desire, or knowing glances
filled with longing? What happens when the kids leave the
nest but the husband stays behind?
Enter Ivan.
Married but questing and quixotic, he proffers notes of
seduction written in Russian (necessitating awkward pleas
for translation from a nearby shopkeeper) and lures Chloe to
the precipice of one glorious, fortuitous fling. Does she
dare?
This wonderfully funny, sexy novel asks a vital
question–how do you keep love alive in a marriage?–and
answers it with poignancy and pure irresistible comedy.
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