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Back In The Game Paperback – July 1, 2006
- Print length368 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherKensington
- Publication dateJuly 1, 2006
- Dimensions5.5 x 1 x 8 inches
- ISBN-100758207972
- ISBN-13978-0758207975
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- Publisher : Kensington (July 1, 2006)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0758207972
- ISBN-13 : 978-0758207975
- Item Weight : 11.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,061,287 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #237,119 in American Literature (Books)
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About the author
I live in Portland, Maine, with my husband Stephen (architect, photographer, and food writer) and our amazingly fabulous cat Betty. When I'm not writing, I usually can be found with my head in a book. I try to read widely; still, I do play favorites with authors such as Peter Ackroyd and Patrick McGrath.
I was born and grew up in the Bronx and later lived in Brooklyn and Manhattan. I earned an undergraduate and graduate degree in English Literature at New York University before going on to work for about twelve years as an editor in publishing and packaging at Ballantine Books, Daniel Weiss Associates, Inc., and Kensington Publishing Corporation. Mostly I developed, acquired and edited projects, usually fiction, in Adult, Young Adult, and Middle Grade categories.
In 1996, I moved to Boston and began freelance editing, ghost writing, and reviewing manuscripts. I was a can-do wordsmith for hire, grinding out books on everything from the importance of shark liver oil in one's diet to feng shui for the amateur; I also worked on what seemed like a million Young Adult series installments. Eventually I decided I'd rather work on my own projects so I made a proposal to my old friend and colleague John Scognamiglio at Kensington. After a couple of false starts he signed me up to write "Living Single," which was published in 2002. Since then I've been writing one novel a year, and I've also contributed novellas to three collections John put together.
In terms of life outside reading and writing, Stephen and I recently updated an 1865 brick townhouse in downtown Portland and we love living in this old seaside town. We entertain a good bit -- Stephen cooks, I set a nice table and clean up afterwards. We're happy to live in an area so full of people who support the arts. Portland itself is alive with theatre and music, and it's the home of several museums, including the impressive Portland Museum of Art, and good independent bookstores catering to serious readers.
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The novel is about four women who find themselves going through a divorce. They share their miseries with one another along with some tops about divorce. One man turned gay, another had his wife cheat on him, another wants a baby and he doesn't and another has found his own true love. Of course, they go through the dating scene and not really my type of escape as too many problems and not a lot of substance.
The book,in a way, just seemed uneven. Kind of like Holly Chamberlin couldn't decide what the tone of the novel should be. For most of the book, at the beginning of each chapter, a quote from made-up self-help books was given and they were all so anti-marriage.
This is my first Holly Chamberlin novel but I bought "Living Single" as I started to read "Back in the game". I'm hoping that "Living Single" is a better book than this one. "Back in the game" isn't the worst book I've read but it's also not the best.