A Little Love Story

by Roland Merullo

Book Overview

Selected as one of the "10 Wonderful Romance Novels" by Good Housekeeping magazine, A Little Love Story is a sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious tale of attraction and loyalty, jealousy and grief.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400032555
• ISBN13: 9781400032556
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

As honest as they get

Honesty rings true throughout Roland Merullo's novels in general and this one in particular. In an American age of supersized, simplified, sterilized everything, this is a compact gem. Merullo can convey crystal clear images or gently criticize institutions and offices in far fewer words than most authors. I hope there's another one on the drawing board.

Oprah would love A LITTLE LOVE STORY

I have just finished reading A Little Love Story and thought it was great. In fact, I couldn't stop reading because there is a wonderful emotional honesty and intensity to Roland Merullo's writing, and because I really was involved in the struggle to save Janet. Then I heard Roland speak at a local bookstore, and the same simple honesty and decency again came clear. I think this book would be perfect for Oprah now that she is doing "living" authors again -- the book is entertaining, inspirational, gripping, AND part of its profits will go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

a love story for grownups

I read this in two sittings and found it difficult to put down. The protagonist, Jake Entwhistle, a carpenter-artist, is on the outs with mainstream American society in the way that most sane people are these days, and his voice is full of charm, humor, whimsy, decency and wisdom. His love affair with Janet, who is dying of CF, is a beautifully sustained pas de deux between two people committed to "brutal honesty," and grasping every sweetness they can as they come face to face with the mortality that awaits us all. The book is tough, funny, likeable and wise. Though it deals with 9/11 in a somewhat glancing way, it's one of the first accounts to do so with an emotional maturity that feels digested and of a size and quality appropriate to the aubject matter. The story is also an utterly compelling read. One of the best books of the year.