Passionate Man: A Novel

by Joanna Trollope

Book Overview

The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed her, swept her off to his father in Scotland, and finally married her.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425176533
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

Another great Trollope novel

JoAnna Trollope is surely one of my favorite authors. This story is about a man who is so attached to his father that he can barely function without his involvement. Trollope keeps your interest throughout the entire book, and when you reach the climax near the end, you will be - or at least I was - totally surprised.

Understanding a Passion

Joanna Trollope never fails to make a "right on the target" hit with her novels. A PASSIONATE MAN makes every nerve vibrate with feelings wrought with emotions. Her characters bring you tears through their pain and joy in their love. The story remains taunt with the revealing of truths felt both by women and the men they love. This is a love story honestly exposing our human aspects.

Very well done

Dr. Archie Logan seems to have it all. He loves his wife Liza whom he met at her engagement party. Fascinated by her from the start, Archie ran a ten-day campaign to win her love. Now they have several children and seem like the ideal poster couple and family. Perhaps the only slight problem between them is that Liza feels excluded from Archie's incredible relationship with his father Andrew, a widower even though her in-law has clearly adopted her as a daughter.However, Archie's perfect world shatters when Liza tells him that Andrew is bringing a woman, Marina de Breton, to their home after decades of parading no females around the family. Everyone else, including Archie's wife, children, and siblings find Marina charming. Archie acts jealous of the first intrusion into his relationship with his dad. However, Archie's behavior opens up the souls of everyone else, including his beloved Liza, that makes the middle aged country doctor reconsider his blindness towards the feelings of others.A PASSIONATE MAN is a thought provoking relationship drama that centers on a good person learning that complacency can lead to negative feelings towards him. Archie is a warm, caring person, but loses perspective. His father's new situation forces him to look inside his own essence and conscience. The support cast provides more than depth by allowing the audience an opportunity to understand the inner workings of interpersonal feelings. Any one desiring a well written, conscience-rendering novel that scrubs away the armor of a human being will fully relish Joanna Trollope's mindbending tale.Harriet Klausner