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Be Careful What You Wish For!

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What happens when a woman becomes "inconvenient"? Flo March is about to find out.

Her wealthy married lover has provided her with many of the material things in life---clothes, jewelry, a home---and has promised to always take care of her. When he becomes ill, however, and the end seems near, he even arranges to buy the home for her and provide a monthly allowance...

So what happens to this dream? Suddenly her world is topsy-turvy. She is persona non grata everywhere she goes. And frightening things are happening...Could it be that the secrets she knows and the inconvenience of her continued presence herald unseen and unknown tragedies?

An Inconvenient Woman paints a cautionary tale of the downside to being a mistress.

I really enjoyed this book, as I enjoy most of Dunne's creations. This one was also made into a movie for TV and I watch it whenever I'm feeling in the mood for a peek into the seamier side of life.

A HAUNTING STORY

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I LOVE DOMINICK DUNNE'S STORIES AND THIS ONE HAS BEEN MY FAVORITE FOR YEARS. I BOUGHT THIS BOOK FOR MY SISTER (WHO WAS NOT A D.D. FAN) BUT FOUND SHE LOVED THE PACE OF HIS WRITING, ETC.

A Must Read

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I've read 3 of Dominick Dunn's books and all of them have not disappointed me. I am a late comer to his work, and I'm glad that I found these books on Amazon for great prices. His books keep you turning the pages and the biggest disappointment is when the book ends.

Flo March in this book is a true survivor. You want her to get what she is promised by Jules and the twist and turns that the book goes thru keeps you turning the pages. I would reccommend this book for anyone who enjoys the peeping thru the keyhole kind of book.

Dreary & pointless

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Picked this book up years ago & read it through despite the dreary plot trajectory & increasing contempt inspired by the principal characters. Hard to believe a fella with beaucoup bucks would settle for such a pointless, boring existence or that a gal who consents to be a wealthy man's mistress could be so clueless.

As depicted by the author, the title character is both naive and presumptuous; too deep in denial about the profession she's chosen to take steps to ensure her future security or to gracefully accept the attentions of a willing successor to the deceased patron, and too enamored of her self-justifying fantasy to understand that appropriating the air of a bereaved widow will elicit little sympathy and still less respect.

In her defense, she's young & her elderly Sugar Daddy is accomplished in exploiting the vulnerabilities of others. With consummate calculation, he keeps her on a short leash in relative social isolation, making it difficult for her to assess the true nature of her situation & its likely outcome.

The story's common enough - even without great wealth, sufficiently unprincipled older persons too often dupe and use needy youngsters. Regardless of where you live, in the course of a year your local paper will likely report the outcome of at least one such arrangement.

This book left me with no desire to sample more of the author's work. If fictionalized treatment of actual events is his forte, surely a more compelling and rewarding set of characters and circumstances could have been chosen.

A Real Page-Turner

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Could NOT put this book down. But the ending! Not as I expected or hoped. Left me feeling empty....but I guess that is what happens in the real world.