The Anglophile
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Q: What turns thirty-five-year-old graduate student Shari Diamond on?
A: Anything British.
Forget tall, dark and handsome. For Shari there’s only tall, pasty and from Across the Pond (despite her aunt’s advice to find a nice Jewish boy). Ever since Shari first happened upon Christopher Robin in her childhood reading, she’s had a passion for all things Anglo-Saxon. First it was books, then it was blokes, now…well, it’s still blokes.
Unbeknownst to her, Kit, Shari’s latest British conquest (and decidedly not a Jew), also happens to be her biggest competition in her search to find the last-known speaker of a language close to extinction. Shari’s spent four years trying to find this guy so she can complete her Ph.D. and now Kit has beaten her to the punch? When she learns that there might be more (and less) to Kit than meets the eye, will this Anglophile turn her back on the land of tea and crumpets once and for all?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Nice Jewish Girl makes good, as in Shapiro's previous offering, The Matzo Ball Heiress. Shari Diamond is living in the uber-hip East Village, working on her graduate degree in the little-known language Volapuk and dating a Nice Jewish Boy. Happy? Not she. Her long-sought-after research subject has bitten the dust, her NJB Kevin has shown his true boring colors and her passion for all things British remains unfulfilled; she's never set foot on the other side of the Pond. A conference in Chicago finds her squiring about a charming, appropriately pasty gentleman of the English persuasion, by the swoonable name of Kit Brown. Letting Kevin float conveniently out of her mind, she passes a delicious night in the company of His Britness, only to discover in the morning he is the mysterious world expert in Volapuk-and he's already solved her thesis. Bugger! What's a girl to do? Why, make a public fool of herself and then invite him back to New York, of course. The story unrolls according to chick-lit formula; astute readers surely won't be in breathless anticipation of which man she ends up with. Tales of Shari's Queens upbringing and glimpses of her hilarious family (Aunt Dot and her pet skunk, for instance) add humor and humanity to an otherwise blase tale.
