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Retirement. Publishers, thank you for the many years of reading pleasure you gave me, but all good things must come to an end. Due to failing eyesight I am forced to retire. I can no longer review your books, and any that you send will be donated to the local library, unread. Do not send any more. I can only read for a couple hours every day, and this does not allow me to finish a book in reasonable time. I will be devoting time to my own books from now on, and reading on a personal level. Books that interest me. I prefer paperbacks and hardbacks, not eBooks. My eyesight has been failing the last few years, and I cannot handle hundreds of review books any more. My books are still available for review. Anyone interested in reviewing any of them, they are found in the Link to Tom’s Books On Amazon. Contact me for pdf copies at fadingshadows40@gmail.com

Thursday, September 14, 2017

The Good Life

In this powerful new book from an esteemed novelist and acclaimed short story writer, Marian Thurm expertly draws a chilling portrait of a marriage and the downward spiral of a loving husband and father who has bought a handgun as the novel opens.

Stacy and Roger seem to have it all: a wonderful marriage, a luxury Upper East Side apartment with all the accoutrements of the wealthy, and two endearing young children enrolled in private schools. But what appears to be "the good life" to their family and friends is not what it seems in this fast-paced, suspenseful novel that shows the sinister effects of a destructive marriage and the pursuit of the privileged life.

Thurm, who according to the New York Times Book Review, "writes brilliantly of the battle of the sexes," has done so again in The Good Life.


The Good Life (Literary Fiction)
By Marian Thurm
The Permanent Press www.thepermanentpress.com
ISBN #978-1579624286
Price $29.00 (hardback)
278 Pages
Rating 3-Stars

“A Well Written Story”

Stacy and Roger are a family on the way up. Both are educated, she is a social worker, and Roger is a real-estate developer. With two children, they seem a happy couple, but that isn’t the case. Roger is failing, and the good life is not what it seems. This was a strange story, one that I would not normally read. We know there are dysfunctional families in all walks of life, and marriages often titter on the brink of ruin, ending sometimes in violence.

The publisher sent the book to me for an honest review. The author’s writing was what held the story together for me, but it wasn’t a book I really cared for. They say there is a genre for everyone, and I’m sure there are readers for this type of fiction. I’m sure others will find the book more impressive than I did. It wasn’t a book that should have been sent to me, however. If you are interested in reading about families living the good life – or wanting to live the good life, then I can highly recommend this book to you.

Tom Johnson

Author of COLD WAR HEROES

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