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Drives Like A Dream
Porter Shreve
#UB5562
Hardcover, 272 pages; 2006 (2005)
$13.00
 Members' Price: $11.05
What fun to read a novel, especially one written by a man, where the woman in question knows a thing or two about cars! Lydia Modine, a woman of a certain age, writes about the automotive industry: she's a "social historian of the automobile" in where-else-but Detroit. When her genial but not-so-successful husband "trades her in" for a newer model, Lydia panics and tries to gather her grown children around her. Luring them back home turns out to be no mean trick, so she resorts to some creative methods—primarily telling whopper lies. Porter Shreve creates a sympathetic, if not always likable, character in Lydia. She has good instincts, but she seems to brush them away in favor of more desperate measures, getting tangled in her own web. The plot is circuitous and engaging, and the auto lore Shreve imparts within the novel is fun for those with more than a passing interest in cars. Drives Like a Dream reads like a dream!
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