Jack & Susan in 1953
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Publisher Description
In this time-shift romance series by the screenwriter of Beetlejuice, the timeless lovers are on a daring adventure through 1950s NYC and Havana.
Regardless of what the calendar says, Jack and Susan are always, eternally, twenty-seven years old. They are destined for each other like Hepburn and Tracy, Dagwood and Blondie, Nick and Nora. And somehow, they always acquire a shaggy white dog on the way to falling in love.
In 1953, New York City is at its glamorous best, Jack's engaged to be engaged to a margarine heiress, and Susan's got a dark and mysterious suitor. When word arrives that someone is trying to poison Susan's long-lost uncle, she and Jack—and his loyal dog Woolf!—head for Havana to rescue uncle James, apprehend the bad guys and hit a few casinos on the side.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It is 1913, and the nation's leading movie companies are headquartered in New York brownstones and the shooting lots are in nearby Fort Lee, N.J. Susan Bright begins writing in this disreputable new business after a broken leg ends her fledgling career as a Broadway actress. Jack Beaumont may be the heir to millions, but he assumes the role of an impoverished inventor to win Susan's love. Together with her three-legged dog, Tripod, they do battle in the "patents war'' and follow the film companies to Hollywood. McDowell's affection for and knowledge of the period are strongly evident, and his plot, which draws on the conventions of contemporaneous popular fiction, is properly melodramatic, improbable and romantic. Although the novel is somewhat thin, it constitutes a pleasant love story with a colorful background.
