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| | "Mass Market Paperback. New. List $ 6.99. [Kensington Publishing Corporation] 304 pages. From the Publisher
When Prudence Malone attends her college reunion, she expects to catch up
with her girlfriends and visit the campus she left in the eighties. Over
the homecoming weekend, she runs into her college flame -- the one who
got (okay, ran) away. The one she’s never forgotten. As they spend
time together, both Prudence and Matt realize that their post-graduation
break-up was a mistake. On Sunday afternoon, Matt impulsively proposes
and the two plan to wed that summer. But before marrying Matt, Prudence
has a problem to deal with -- her husband Reilly.
Prudence could divorce Reilly like a normal person, but she’s
far too wacky for that. Her solution is to secretly find a new wife
for Reilly to replace herself after she and Matt marry. This
shouldn’t be too difficult, she decides. After all, she lives in
Manhattan where there are plenty of single women. And she can enlist
the help of her three best friends: a costume-wearing advertising
executive, a saucy single mother and a level-headed gay artist.
Though the newly engaged couple lives on opposite coasts, Prudence
still finds herself in as series of near-misses trying to keep Matt
and Reilly unaware of the other’s existence. Ever-fumbling
Prudence gave her new boyfriend the idea that she is a widow. Her
husband has no idea that his wife has a fiancé in California.
Through singles ads and a “Wife of Reilly” gallery
exhibit, the gang of four meets New York’s nuttiest single women
looking for love. Among the pack, Prudence crosses paths with a
recovering lesbian who has just graduated from Straight Expectations
rehabilitation center, a horrifying mirror image of herself, and an
aspiring writer who lost interest in her own memoirs mid-draft. Along
the way, Prudence is rejected by an insipid kindergarten teacher,
pumped for investment tips by a demanding attorney, and swarmed by
wannabe wives of Reilly. And she finds herself intensely jealous of a
creative young playwright who declared Reilly “damaged
goods” after learning that he is not actually Prudence’s
brother (as she originally claimed).
Through her eight-month search, Prudence ultimately helps find the
next wife of Reilly, though not at all in the way she had originally
planned. Somewhere along the journey, she discovers something far more
important – herself" |
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