Full name: Herb 'n' Lorna: a Love Story

Author: Eric Kraft Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312135096 0312135092

On the surface Herb and Lorna Piper are typically sunny 1950s American adults. Herbs sells Sudebakers to the citizens of Bebbington, a Long Island seaside town, and Lorna is his cheerfully coy and clever wife. Their story seems like an American myth: small-town origins, Jazz Age romance, Depression trials, postwar prosperity. But this book begins with the shocking, wondrous discovery, made by their grandson Peter Leroy after their death, "that my maternal grandparents were involved in--virtually the creators of--the animated erotic jewelry industry." And from that moment the story of Herb and Lorna takes on a tone of mingled awe and delight, propelled by a pair of secrets that dovetail, at the end, into a luscious and bawdy revelation. Similar books: The Blood of the Lamb by Peter De Vries Little Green Man by Simon Armitage The Last Novel by David Markson Children of Light by Robert Stone Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe Angel Pavement by J. B. Priestley Prisoner's Dilemma by Richard Powers The Clowns of God by Morris West Friends and Relations by Elizabeth Bowen Players by Don DeLillo The Winner Stands Alone by Paulo Coelho The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B by J. P. Donleavy The Last Resort by Alison Lurie Steps by Jerzy Kosinski Aberration of Starlight by Gilbert Sorrentino Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson