One Minus One (Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries), by Ruth Doan MacDougall
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One Minus One (Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries), by Ruth Doan MacDougall
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Capturing in rich detail the freewheeling sixties, One Minus One explores a young woman’s journey toward self-realization following a painful divorce. In 1969, thirty-year-old Emily Bean moves to a town in New Hampshire’s coastal region to take a job as a high-school teacher. Struggling with the challenges of single life and still in love with her ex-husband, David, Emily attracts the attention of local radio personality Warren, and also Cliff, the head of the high-school English department, who might perhaps take David’s place in her life. Just as the town must inevitably change with the times, Emily must try to make a new future even as she longs to recapture the past. Book Lust Rediscoveries is a series devoted to reprinting some of the best (and now out of print) novels originally published from 1960 to 2000. Each book is personally selected by NPR commentator and Book Lust author Nancy Pearl and includes an introduction by her, as well as discussion questions for book groups and a list of recommended further reading.
One Minus One (Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries), by Ruth Doan MacDougall- Published on: 2015-09-15
- Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .50" w x 5.25" l,
- Running time: 6 Hours
- Binding: MP3 CD
About the Author Ruth Doan MacDougall, whose father wrote novels and hiking books, began writing stories of her own at the age of six in her hometown of Laconia, New Hampshire. She never stopped. Today, she is the respected author of deeply felt novels about the lives of women, including The Cheerleader, her acclaimed coming-of-age bestseller about a teenage girl in the 1950s, which launched her acclaimed Snowy Series. A recipient of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project’s Lifetime Achievement Award, MacDougall continues to write novels and to update her late father’s hiking books. She is happy to say that she is still madly in love with her husband of fifty-five years and explains that her novel One Minus One came about when she tried to imagine what her life would be like if they ever divorced. She lives in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Small Town New Hampshire Life Circa 1969 By Susan K. Schoonover The sixth installment in Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries series ONE MINUS ONE was originally published in 1971 and is set a couple of years earlier apparently around 1969. The novel tells the story in first person of a young woman named Emily. Emily is thirty and a childless housewife/unpublished author who is left desolate when her teacher husband divorces her for the high school guidance counselor. She dusts off her own teaching credentials and finds a job in another part of her home state of New Hampshire teaching English. During her first year in the new area she dates two local men one of whom dumps her for a younger woman and one who is a nice guy who wants to marry her. But Emily is still "stuck" on her ex-husband and her life with him. Will she be able to move forward with her life?This is a character driven novel and readers not even born when it was first published will be able to relate to Emily, her friends, family and problems. The book also stands as a genuine slice of small town New England in the late 1960's. Many readers may smile when they see the salaries the characters were earning in that era, the prices paid for many items in those times or the excitement Emily and her roommates express when their new apartment has avocado colored appliances. The importance of television and television commercials to the characters is often referenced. Some readers may also want to force the cigarettes Emily and her fellow teachers are constantly smoking (even in the teacher's lounge at school) out of their hands. Like all the volumes in Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Rediscoveries the book begins with a thoughtful introduction that includes why it was chosen to be reissued for the series and ends with a few discussion questions as well as several suggestions for further reading. I plan to continue to read all of Nancy Pearl's choices for Book Lust Rediscoveries and though I missed the one preceding ONE MINUS ONE, THE COWBOY AND THE COSSACK it is now loaded on to my Kindle.
31 of 36 people found the following review helpful. What exactly was the point? By Agnes O'Neil I love Nancy Pearl and have read many good books on her recommendations but this one is a head scratcher. Emily is divorced, pining for the husband who left her for another woman, and trying to make a life for herself as an English teacher in a small town.But for someone this provincial, she thinks and talks like a much more experienced woman, something hard to find in 1969. I kept waiting for the point of it all, but it was just one long boring depiction of her sad life and her inability to move on.But you, dear reader, SHOULD move on.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A slice of life of someone who hasn't learned how to live By S. Lionel In Nancy Pearl's introduction to "One Minus One", she writes, "... there are four main doorways through which one can enter (or be drawn into) a work of fiction: story, character, setting and language." Pearl cites character as her "dominant doorway", so it's not astonishing that she likes Ruth Doan MacDougall's works so much - at least if One Minus One is an example.The story of Emily Bean, newly divorced, resonated with me in some regards as it made me think of my own divorce some 27 years ago. Many of the emotions Emily feels are those I recall, not without some pain. That the story takes place in my neck of the woods, more or less, gave it some added relevance, though all of the towns where action takes place are fictional, and while the area of the story is allegedly near the southern New Hampshire seacoast, the flavor of the towns, architecture and people are solidly northern NH.While I thought the writing was strong, and the characters definitely brought to life on the pages, I could not help but get irritated at Emily and her inability to let her failed marriage go. Obviously this bothered Nancy Pearl as well, as she alludes to it in her introduction. After I read the book I passed it on to my wife, who grew up in northern NH - she not only was annoyed with Emily, saying that she needed a therapist, she also found the depiction of the people and landscape a bit too "close to home" for her comfort."One Minus One" is a "slice of life" story - it doesn't really go anywhere, the characters don't grow and nothing gets resolved. Such stories are not my favorites, but they can be good if they're done right. I might have liked it better if I could muster some sympathy for the protagonist - but I couldn't.
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