BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Over thirty-five years ago, Gordon Meyers, an
aspiring writer with a low number in the draft lottery, packed his
belongings and reluctantly drove away, leaving Glenna Rising, the sexy,
sharp-witted med student he couldn’t imagine living without. Now,
decades later, Gordon is a former globetrotting consultant with a grown
son, an ex-wife, and an overwhelming desire to see Glenna again. Stunned
when Gordon walks into her Manhattan office, Glenna agrees to accompany
him for a drink. As the two head out into the snow-swept city, they
become caught up in the passions that drew them together before tearing
them apart. And as the evening unfolds, Gordon finally reveals the true
reason for his return.
Kirkus says, "Golden's breakout debut fiction is a passionate story of
love, loss and reconciliation... Grab a handful of tissues, think The
Notebook and then start speculating on actors best suited to bring
Gordon and Glenna to the Big Screen."website: PeterGolden.com
Synopsis
Paperback, $15
eBook, $9.99
ISBN: 978-1451656329
Fiction, 304 pages
Atria Books
April 3, 2012
A debut novel about a man and his romantic quest to find the woman he loved and lost years before.
Like Nicholas Sparks and Robert James Waller, first-time novelist Peter Golden knows how to write the kind of nostalgic fiction that men and women alike fall for. In Comeback Love, a universal story about lost love, he offers an evocative debut that begins in the tumultuous 1960s and ends in the feverish thrill of present-day New York City.
Over thirty-five years ago, Gordon Meyers, an aspiring writer with a low number in the draft lottery, packed his belongings and reluctantly drove away, leaving Glenna Rising, the sexy, sharp-witted med student he couldn’t imagine living without.
Now, decades later, Gordon is a former globetrotting consultant with a grown son, an exwife,and an overwhelming desire to see Glenna again. Stunned when Gordon walks into her Manhattan office, Glenna agrees to accompany him for a drink. As the two head out into the snow-swept city, they become caught up in the passions that drew them together before tearing them apart. And as the evening unfolds, Gordon finally reveals the true reason for his return.
Comeback Love is a bracing journey into the hearts of two lovers who came of age in the 1960s.
Plumbing the depths of youth, regret, and desire, Peter Golden deftly illuminates the bonds that mysteriously endure in the face of momentous change.
Author Biography Peter Golden is an award-winning journalist and the author of six full-length works of non-fiction and fiction. Some of his work has appeared in the Detroit Free Press Magazine, Albany Times Union, New Jersey Monthly, Microsoft’s eDirections, Beyond Computing, Electronic Business, Midstream, The Forward and Capital Region Magazine. Golden’s Quiet Diplomat, a biography of industrialist and political-insider Max M. Fisher made the Detroit Free Press bestseller list. Among those he interviewed were Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush; Secretaries of State Kissinger, Haig and Shultz; and Israeli Prime Ministers Shamir, Peres and Rabin. With J. Stanley Shaw, Golden wrote I Rest My Case: My Long Journey from the Castle on the Hill to Home, a memoir that chronicles Shaw’s life from his childhood years under the supervision of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum in the 1930s to his career as one of the preeminent bankruptcy attorneys in the United States. Golden re-interviewed Henry Kissinger, George Shultz and other world leaders, including Mikhail Gorbachev, for his nonfiction look at the Cold War, O Powerful Western Star (Gefen Publishing, May 2012). His debut novel Comeback Love (Atria Books, April 2012) tells the story of a man and his romantic quest to find the women he loved and lost years before in the 1960s. Golden grew up in South Orange and Maplewood, New Jersey, and lives today outside Albany, New York with his wife and son. PeterGolden.com
Interview
1. Reading different things in this book tends to make me think the main male character is in part, you, in your younger days?
He
is and he isn’t. In fact, there is a little of me in all of the characters. I
believe novels are dreams translated into words, and dreams always belong to
the dreamer.
I
don’t know. However, it bears a distinct resemblance to a famous album cover of
the era, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, where he is walking down the street with
his girlfriend, Suze Rotolo.
3. Which of the world leaders was your favorite to interview and why?
Richard
Nixon and Yitzhak Rabin for the simple reason that they were so deeply involved
in the history that surrounded my life.
4. What was your favorite scene to write?
The
dinner scenes with both sets of parents. They both make me laugh, and I also
find them moving.
6. What do you do to relax? Read, hike, shop, eat, cook?
I
like to eat to relax, but then I have to diet and I don’t find that relaxing at
all, so I cut back. Listening to music and walking a few miles: I do that every
day. And I read---read, read, read, read.
7. What other authors/genre can we find you reading?
My review Comeback Love by Peter Golden
This book is about Gordon Meyers who is a writer and going to college, to keep out of the war.
Glenna Rising is studying to be a doctor and they get wrapped up in the rallies/marches/protests that deal with abortions. She is able to perform abortions where you suction out the cells. She doesn't feel it's a fetus till after 12 weeks.
They start dating and go to the rallies and protest marches in the city.
This love story goes in a different direction and they each move on in their lives. They do meet up later in life and I love how the book just goes to a certain point then goes back in time so you are then able to understand what transpired.
It follows both of their living arrangements and travel and work til they meet again. Their families, husband, children and work.
Love the travels and the work they've each done over the years.
I can recall sitting in front of a TV listening to the lottery for the war with my brother. It's one of the only times I ever saw him cry.
Love the memories of Woodstock and other mentions of musical groups of the times.
Not only did I like the travel but the learning of new things in this book. I had just read a war type book where it mentioned the listening posts so that was familiar to me.
Although this is mostly about the two of them, others pop into their lives but it's not overpowering, keeping the focus on the two main characters. Love touching scene at his sisters'.
Loved the ending also, brought it all together...
To me this is the Love Story of the 70's. This book got a 5 out of 5, excellent read!
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1 comment:
Ooh I totally LOVED this book!! It was beautifully written and heartfelt. Highly recommended!
Ana @ BookSpark
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