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Until the Real Thing Comes Along - by Elizabeth Berg (Paperback)

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  • Patty Murphy is facing that pivotal point in a woman's life when her biological clock ticks as insistently as a beating heart.
  • About the Author: Elizabeth Berg's novels Open House, The Pull of the Moon, Range of Motion, What We Keep, Never Change, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along were bestsellers.
  • 274 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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About the Book



Now in paperback comes irresistible women's fiction from the bestselling author of "Talk Before Sleep". Rarely the bridesmaid and never the bride, Patty Hansen sells houses for a living, is desperate to be married and have a child, but is impossibly in love with the wrong man.



Book Synopsis



Patty Murphy is facing that pivotal point in a woman's life when her biological clock ticks as insistently as a beating heart. Will she find Mr. Right and start a family? But Patty is in love--with a man who is not only attractive and financially sound, but sensitive and warmhearted. There's just one small problem: He is also gay.

Against her better judgment, and pleas from family and friends, Patty refuses to give up on Ethan. Every man she dates ultimately leaves her aching for the gentle comfort and intimacy she shares with him. But even as she throws eligible bachelors to the wayside to spend yet another platonic night with Ethan, Patty longs more and more for the consolation of loving and being loved. In the meantime she must content herself with waiting--until the real thing comes along. . . .



Review Quotes




"Touching . . . [A] deft, sweet, and often comic novel."
--Chicago Tribune

"THIS NOVEL MAKES FOR PLEASANT READING . . . PATTY MURPHY IS APPEALINGLY VULNERABLE. . . . NOVELIST ELIZABETH BERG HAS AN ENGAGING VOICE AND STYLE."
--Los Angeles Times

"A PERCEPTIVE COMEDY OF MODERN MANNERS . . . At the end of each undemanding day, Patty goes home to an empty apartment and listens to her biological clock ticking as ominously as Captain Hook's crocodile. . . . Patty wants a husband and a baby, and not necessarily in that order. . . . But Patty has a problem. Try as she might, there is only one man she can love--her best friend, Ethan--and try as Ethan might, he is quite firmly and intractably gay. With rueful good humor, Until the Real Thing Comes Along shows how Patty and Ethan come to terms with the impossibility of having it all."
--The Boston Globe

"BERG WRITES WITH HUMOR AND UNDERSTANDING ABOUT MATTERS OF THE HEART. . . . The author's generous view of humanity is evident in her characters, who walk right off the page they are so well and truly drawn."
--St. Louis Post Dispatch

"ENTERTAINING . . . FLAWLESS DIALOGUE . . . READING IT IS LIKE EAVESDROPPING ON AN INTIMATE FEMALE CHAT."
--New York Daily News

"COMPELLING . . . [A] WARMLY TOLD TALE."
--People



About the Author



Elizabeth Berg's novels Open House, The Pull of the Moon, Range of Motion, What We Keep, Never Change, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along were bestsellers. Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year. Talk Before Sleep was an ABBY finalist and a New York Times bestseller. In 1997, Berg won the NEBA Award in fiction, and in 2000 her novel Open House was named an Oprah's Book Club selection. She lives in Chicago.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.02 Inches (H) x 5.18 Inches (W) x .61 Inches (D)
Weight: .44 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 274
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Author: Elizabeth Berg
Language: English
Street Date: June 6, 2000
TCIN: 94350304
UPC: 9780345437396
Item Number (DPCI): 247-42-9687
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.61 inches length x 5.18 inches width x 8.02 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.44 pounds
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