- Taschenbuch: 224 Seiten
- Verlag: Persea Books Inc; Auflage: Reissue (September 1993)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0892551941
- ISBN-13: 978-0892551941
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 2,1 x 1,4 x 0,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.389.678 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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From Kirkus Reviews
Storey's debut is The Mary Tyler Moore Show updated, set in a funky apartment house in the Montrose section of Houston. The super, known as St. Francis, dispenses carrot juice during New Age Happy Hour to a collection of hip dorm-dwellers: Barbara, a Texas farm girl turned loan officer, pregnant by a welder; Gigi, into computers and sex at least three times a week; and, last but not least, Colleen, a real doll who works at the public library, does aerobics, drinks PMS tea, and keeps trying to transform herself ``from a tart on a heroic quest into a handmaiden of higher consciousness.'' But, as she says, ``Where are all the red-blooded American boys I was promised for my virtue?'' Clearly not in her bed, since she's currently sleeping with one Web Desiderio, a cruise-ship social director who knows exactly how to get her to do what he wants, like dancing semi-nude at stag parties. So, when Colleen meets a man who looks like a real contender--an ER doctor named Gabriel who's endearingly disconsolate over his divorce-- she's hard-pressed to explain how it is that she's up on a prostitution rap (resulting from a kinky evening with Web and friends). But good guys like Gabe understand, ergo happy ending. Every other line is a punch line--or trying to be. Occasionally a glimmer of light shows through, but generally this is a novel that asks insistently: Aren't I cute? Isn't my life nifty? -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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From Library Journal
The Lord's Motel is a hilarious and poignant first novel about love, the singles scene, and the absurdities of modern life. Colleen Sweeney, a librarian in Houston specializing in service to the unserved, is in love with Mr. Wrong--Web Desiderio--a playboy and social director on a cruise ship. Web leads Colleen into an arrest for prostitution. Then, when one of her homebound patrons is rushed to the emergency room, Colleen meets Mr. Right--Dr. Gabriel Benedict--who is horrified by her past. Throughout her adventures, Colleen is supported by her friends from the Lord's Motel, the unusual apartment building in which she lives. A lively and eccentric cast of characters, an offbeat plot, and a spunky heroine make for light and enjoyable reading. Recommended.
- Stephanie Furtsch, New Rochelle P.L., N.Y.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
- Stephanie Furtsch, New Rochelle P.L., N.Y.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Format:Taschenbuch
Colleen is a trip. She pulls you into her very being from the first paragraph. Writing in the first person, Colleen (Storey)makes you feel instant and present intimacy with her quirky, fun world. Her take on people and life are worth the read.
Format:Taschenbuch
Gail Donohue Storey's The Lord's Motel deals with the scattered life of Colleen Sweeney, and her struggle to retain sanity in the face of an aimlessness and co-dependency that has left her perilously close to emotional disaster.
Colleen works in a library, and demonstrates enough initiative to create a prison book delivery program, despite substantial administrative resistance. She calls it Service to the Unserved.
But not everything about Colleen's life is so well orchestrated. Personally, she is far from together. She is right at home in her small, somewhat seedy apartment complex with its collection of tenants in varying degrees of mental stability. These neighbors (including a New Age pseudo-prophet named St. Francis, who manages the place) are Colleen's surrogate family, and they provide a number of wise and comic moments in the book.
Colleen also has an unhealthy attachment to a man of questionable character, whose manipulation and sexual deviance she would rather endure than risk the terror of being alone.
Everything about Colleen suggests both kindness and desperation. She is at once playful and panicked. Storey's use of first person narration is appropriate to her character's impulsiveness and unwitting flirtation with the darker side of life. We see events unfold as Colleen does, but with greater perspective (Ever noticed it's always easier to spot the horrors in someone else's life?).
Dialogue and imagery are both fresh. The tone of the book is light, but to dismiss it as quirk is to miss the point entirely. There are serious issues at work. Colleen's cute-speak is a happy mask, designed to disguise despair. One gets the sense that if for one second Colleen stopped smiling, her face would crack like poorly treated porcelain.
Perhaps Service to the Unserved is a metaphor for Colleen's precarious plight, and by extension the rest of us. I liked Colleen. I found her to be in most ways normal, which is frightening. But maybe the real fright is that so many of us are, at some point in our lives, a single thread away from losing it. On the other hand, maybe we're all just walking around in need of a little Service.
Reading The Lord's Motel might do the trick.
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Flighty story with a flighty heroine
30. August 2001
Format:Taschenbuch
I liked the other reviews of this book, and it's generally hard to disagree with them. However, the character of Web Desiderio was less than fully developed, and it makes the narrator's conflict less believable. Colleen's main conflict is that she is kept "off-balance" by her mixed feelings for Web. She's drawn to him, but he hurts her and makes her feel worthless. It's clear why he's a toxic person for her, but what is the reason for her attraction? She mentions his physical attractiveness, but only in passing, as if that's not that important to her. There is a scene where he discusses his dead mother, and it seems that Colleen feels for him, but it fails to render him adorable. When about to make a critical error in judgement, Colleen simply defends the enormous mistake by saying it's to "have the experience." I feel like her mind conveniently shut down, and it did not feel like the author had built up Web's powers of persuasion effectively. Further more, Colleen's relationship with the doctor develops unrealistically quickly and feels a bit false. On the whole, the book is enjoyable, and at times Colleen is remarkably insightful. Also, I chose this book because I may have to relocate to Houston. The author's depiction of Houston is very helpful.
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There but for the Grace of God...
18. Januar 2000
Format:Taschenbuch
Gail Donohue Storey's The Lord's Motel deals with the scattered life of Colleen Sweeney, and her struggle to retain sanity in the face of an aimlessness and co-dependency that has left her perilously close to emotional disaster.
Colleen works in a library, and demonstrates enough initiative to create a prison book delivery program, despite substantial administrative resistance. She calls it Service to the Unserved.
But not everything about Colleen's life is so well orchestrated. Personally, she is far from together. She is right at home in her small, somewhat seedy apartment complex with its collection of tenants in varying degrees of mental stability. These neighbors (including a New Age pseudo-prophet named St. Francis, who manages the place) are Colleen's surrogate family, and they provide a number of wise and comic moments in the book.
Colleen also has an unhealthy attachment to a man of questionable character, whose manipulation and sexual deviance she would rather endure than risk the terror of being alone.
Everything about Colleen suggests both kindness and desperation. She is at once playful and panicked. Storey's use of first person narration is appropriate to her character's impulsiveness and unwitting flirtation with the darker side of life. We see events unfold as Colleen does, but with greater perspective (Ever noticed it's always easier to spot the horrors in someone else's life?).
Dialogue and imagery are both fresh. The tone of the book is light, but to dismiss it as quirk is to miss the point entirely. There are serious issues at work. Colleen's cute-speak is a happy mask, designed to disguise despair. One gets the sense that if for one second Colleen stopped smiling, her face would crack like poorly treated porcelain.
Perhaps Service to the Unserved is a metaphor for Colleen's precarious plight, and by extension the rest of us. I liked Colleen. I found her to be in most ways normal, which is frightening. But maybe the real fright is that so many of us are, at some point in our lives, a single thread away from losing it. On the other hand, maybe we're all just walking around in need of a little Service.
Reading The Lord's Motel might do the trick.
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A Consistently Smart, Witty Story by an Exceptional Writer
10. September 2000
Format:Taschenbuch
"Is it better to have fun with a kinky man or to be gloomy with a good one?" So begins Gail Donohue Storey's smart, witty and sometimes sensual tale of one woman's search for love and personal growth. The story is narrated by the engaging and endearing Colleen, the principal protagonist, who functions in a chronic state of analytical overload. Indeed, her search for answers is continually impeded by her propensity to keep manufacturing more questions. Colleen is a librarian; bright, thoughtful, and kind. But her self-created world of palpable excess and her personal baggage take their toll in her decision-making processes. The result is a story that grabs the reader from the first sentence and never lets him or her go. The characters are brilliantly created and unforgettable. Perhaps most compelling, though, is Storey's gift for turning a clever phrase in describing Colleen's existential angst. It makes the dialogue some of the most entertaining that I have ever seen in a novel. Casual readers will love the story; voracious ones will marvel at the artfulness of the text; and writers, such as I, will just wish that they could write like Gail Donohue Storey. This book is a winner. It's "Sex in the City" with an actual point.
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