Books : After All These Years: A Novel
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780060563738
ISBN: 0060563737
Label: Perennial
Manufacturer: Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2004-02
Publisher: Perennial
Release Date: February 03, 2004
Sales Rank: 92112
Studio: Perennial
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The day after her lavish wedding anniversary bash, Rosie Meyers gets a big surprise: her nouveau riche husband, Richie, is leaving her for a sultry, sophisticated, size-six MBA. So, when he's found murdered in their exquisitely appointed kitchen, no one is surprised to find Rosie's prints all over the weapon.
The suburban English teacher is the prime suspect -- the police's only suspect. And she knows she'll spend the rest of her life in the prison library unless she can unmask the real killer. Going into Manhattan on the lam, Rosie learns more about Richie than she ever wanted to know. And more about herself than she ever dreamed possible.
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isaacs bypasses the front row seats and drops you into the story beside rosie. her delicious details create a dimension in which you stumble over a body in the kitchen and shiver in the autumn chill of central park shadows. perfect.
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Book was as represented and arrived within an appropriate length of time. Would buy from this seller again.
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Rich people misbehaving on Long Island. Who cares? Could have been written by Dominick Dunne, although he would have done a better job of it. Susan Isaacs does turn a nice phrase now and then, but the emphasis on wealth, which is mentioned in one way or another on nearly every page, is shallow and boring. I struggled through about half the book and then skipped to the end to see the outcome.
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Susan Isaacs does a wonderful job in 'After All These Years'.
Shortly after her anniversary celebration, Rosie Meyers finds herself alone after her husband leaves her for another(much younger) woman. Spending another evening alone, she decides to binge on junk food. But she soon loses her appetite when she finds her soon-to-be-ex-husband dead in the house. And the prime suspect? Rosie.
The book follow Rosie around, as she narrates in a want-to-be-private-eye style(caused by to many mystery books and old private-eye movies), trying to find the REAL killer behind her husbands murder. Can she find a way to clear her name and get her life back together? Or is she doomed to a life behind bars? Read the book to find out!
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This was a good book. I didn't expect to read the greatest book I'd ever read; what I'd expected was a story gripping enough to make me turn away from the computer and just want to read. That's what I got out of "After All These Years," which I think to be a terrible title for what is, really, quite a fun read.
"After All These Years" is based around solving the crime that middle-aged English teacher (but extremely wealthy by marriage) Rosie Meyers stands accused. I love a good murder mystery, and this one held my interest, despite the fact that stories surrounded by disgusting amounts of wealth ordinarily make me cringe. However, Rosie was a down-to-earth yet fallible woman, who mostly held true to the character Ms. Isaacs had created for her (a small flaw being that Rosie was a little too sexually promiscuous to me, considering how she acted in all other situations).
I figured out who had done it about three-quarters of the way through the story...and I'm not the world's best sleuth. So mystery fans may be disappointed by the easy answer. However, there were lots of twists and turns in this story that kept me turning pages right up until the end.
In comparing "After All These Years" to the other Susan Isaacs story I have read -- "Lily White" -- I liked "After All These Years" better. "Lily White" was an intriguing book, but based less on mystery and more a character study. Also, "Lily White" danced between first- and third-person ... Read More
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