Portable Air Cooler for Home & Office - Energy Efficient Cooling Fan with 3 Speeds - Perfect for Bedroom, Living Room, and Workspace
Portable Air Cooler for Home & Office - Energy Efficient Cooling Fan with 3 Speeds - Perfect for Bedroom, Living Room, and Workspace
Portable Air Cooler for Home & Office - Energy Efficient Cooling Fan with 3 Speeds - Perfect for Bedroom, Living Room, and Workspace

Portable Air Cooler for Home & Office - Energy Efficient Cooling Fan with 3 Speeds - Perfect for Bedroom, Living Room, and Workspace

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When Iris, 45, divorces her wealthy physician husband of many years to go off to a new life with the man she loves, she settles for a quick but inequitable divorce. When her lover then abandons her, she finds herself alone, desperate and without resources. Unprepared to earn her own living, she fails at one job after another and loses all confidence. Iris finally decides to use the one skill she acquired in her marriagehousekeeping. To the dismay of her friends and her daughter, she takes a job as housekeeper in the luxurious Maine summer home of Broadway lawyer Leo Tanner and his wife Paula. It soon becomes clear that Paula has no life of her ownher entire life revolves around her husband and their troubled daughter, Beth. It also grows clear that the role of Iris is more that of maid than housekeeper. Paula is cold and arrogant, and makes unreasonable demands, which Iris must cater to because she needs the job. Gradually Iris makes friends in the community, begins to regain confidence, and is determined to work her way through to independence. Paula suffers a crushing double blow when her daughter runs off with an unscrupulous young man and Leo demands a divorce. In anguish, Paula reaches out to Iris and they become tentative friends. But Iris fears she will lose her chance of independence if she stays with Paula. In taking steps to make a life of her own, Iris sets in motion a chain of unforeseen events for Paula.

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I agree with the previous reviewer. I was attracted to this book because of the movie. Usually the book is far superior than any movie adaptation, but not in this case. The bookstore owner is involved in a love triangle with Beth's boyfriend, and engages in some catty behavior and dialogue. And while Paula goes through a hard time after Leo leaves her, she was bouncing back after the storm. If Iris' recovery and redemption, and later Paula's, is supposed to be the point of the book, how can we celebrate that in the fact that at least in some respect, Iris let Paula down at the end in a devastating way - as did Beth, and all Iris' friends. You read through this book expecting to see the characters grow in a positive way. That Iris and Paula will both resolve their various and even related issues. And through 90% of the book the characters make progress toward that. Then in the end, instead of a final growth to a resolution, there is a flurry of cattiness by all the characters except Paula that ends in a tragedy. If you really like the movie, and want to read this book, avoid the ending because it seems to invalidate so much of what went on before. And don't believe the cover blurbs, that talk about its themes of survival. False advertising there, or perhaps the reviewer only saw the movie.