Herb N Lorna

by Eric Kraft

Book Overview

On the surface, Herb and Lorna's story seems like an American myth: small-town origins, Jazz Age romance, Depression trials, and postwar prosperity. By the 1950s, they seem to be a typically sunny... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517559412
• ISBN13: 9780517559413
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 8 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The extraordinary lives of an ordinary couple

What a shock for Peter Leroy to discover after the deaths of his warm and cuddly "Gumma" and "Guppa," that they had been involved in a rather unusual cottage industry! This is possibly my favorite of Eric Kraft's books. It's the one I frequently suggest to my friends that they start with. It's a warm, loving, and very funny story of the couple written posthumously by their fictional grandson.

You will laugh with sweet abandon from beginning to end

Savor this wonderful, funny, fabulous book. To say that it is sweet is, well, true, and yet, that doesn't quite catch the theme, as readers will know from the first page. This book is definitely on my top ten list-- I have enjoyed all of Eric Kraft's books about Peter Leroy and his family and friends, but this one is my all time favorite. My copy has made the rounds through over 10 friends and I've bought as many as gifts, and each and everyone of the readers has been delighted and enraptured by the story of Peter's grandparents and their romance. To be able to share this novel is truly wonderful. Thank you, Mr. Kraft!

GORGEOUS!

I just remembered I owned this book, and I came in here to check out what I thought would be dozens of glowing reviews, but found only two! The story is original, funny and heartwarming, about two people who are madly in love, and spend their entire lives together with a secret each between them. There are parts of this book I would not dare to read in public, because I know I will break into hysterical laughter. I spent years forcing my friends to read it, and now I am trying to force strangers. You must read it! It's wonderful! And the photographs are priceless.

A real treasure

Eric Kraft draws you into the life of a totally off-the-wall but thoroughly lovable family, headed by Herb and Lorna. Through all the clever (if twisted) humor and odd but tasteful sexiness, the tremendous love of the title characters envelopes you.

Get tickled

Everybody has a book or two they recommend not just because the book's good, but because they want to share the special pleasure of a secret joy. This is my book. Herb and Lorna are the sweetest, kindest, sexiest grandparents imaginable. And their lives get spun out in one of the most clever, funniest, slyest, biggest-hearted novels ever. You can imagine how much fun Kraft had writing Herb n'Lorna and how sad he must have been to leave them. The Buffalo reviewer called it a triumph of love and art over folly. It's a triumph of love and art AND folly.