Details
Rent As Husbands Go
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Narrator: Huber, Hillary
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: Jul 2010
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $32.95
Synopsis
A rare mix of wit, social satire, and suspense, along with characters who leap from the page to speak directly to the reader -- a moving story about a love that just won't give up, As Husbands Go is the latest from critically acclaimed, bestselling author, Susan Isaacs.
Susie B. Anthony Rabinowitz Gersten assumed her marriage was great--and why not? Jonah Gersten, M.D., a Park Avenue plastic surgeon, clearly adored her. He was handsome, successful, and a doting dad. But when Jonah is found dead in the Upper East Side apartment of a second-rate ''escort'', Susie is overwhelmed with questions. With help from her tough-talking, high-style Grandma Ethel who flies in from Miami, she takes on her snooty in-laws, her husband's medical partners, the NYPD, and the DA as she tries to prove that her wonderful life with Jonah was no lie. Susan Isaacs brilliantly turns the conventions of the mystery on end as Susie Gersten--suburban mom, floral designer, and fashion plate--searches not so much for answers to her husband's death as for answers to her own life.
Reviews
Maybe Hillary Huber is a good reader. I wouldn't know. The begining of this audiobook was so dull, rambling, and irratating I gave up. Susan B Anthony Rabinowitz Gersten, a.k.a. Susie starts the book not with a narrative about her self and her husband Jonah but with a dissertation. I wanted to stick something sharp in my ears! It was easier to return the CD. Funny that Susan Isaacs named her character Susan. What's with that? I didn't want Jonah the husband to be dead, I wanted Susie the wife to be dead so she would shut up. I didn't care enough about the character to skip ahead and find out what happened.