Landing
by:
Emma Donoghue (author)
A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationshipsthe kind millions of us now maintain mostly by plane, phone, and Internet.Síle is a stylish citizen of the new...
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A delightful, old-fashioned love story with a uniquely twenty-first-century twist, Landing is a romantic comedy that explores the pleasures and sorrows of long-distance relationshipsthe kind millions of us now maintain mostly by plane, phone, and Internet.Síle is a stylish citizen of the new Dublin, a veteran flight attendant who’s traveled the world. Jude is a twenty-five-year-old archivist, stubbornly attached to the tiny town of Ireland, Ontario, in which she was born and raised. On her first plane trip, Jude’s and Síle’s worlds touch and snag at Heathrow Airport. In the course of the next year, their lives, and those of their friends and families, will be drawn into a new, shaky orbit.This sparkling, lively story explores age-old questions: Does where you live matter more than who you live with? What would you give up for love, and would you be a fool to do so? (20070201)
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780151012978 (0151012970)
Publish date: May 7th 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Cultural,
Romance,
Adult,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Glbt,
Queer,
Canada,
Lesbian,
Lesbian Fiction
This story succeeds with the strength of the main characters and the wit and dialogue of the minor characters (In Ireland). Normally I take issue with large age differences in romantic stories and in real life, but I liked Síla so much that the issue faded quickly for me. Around the 4/5's mark in th...
I stopped reading when it became clear there was going to be a happy (sappy) ending. The two main characters were each boring, annoying, and drama-prone in their own special way, and I couldn't stand either one of them. They had absolutely nothing in common except their reciprocal disdain for the ot...
It's funny and lighthearted & the writing is quite good.