Stay

Zusatztext “ Stay has everything...humor! heart-and! endearingly! buckets of dog slobber.”— Miami Herald “ Gilmore Girls meets Marley & Me in this funny and compelling debut.”— Library Journal Informationen zum Autor Allie Larkin is the internationally bestselling author of the novels  Swimming for Sunlight ,  Stay , and  Why Can’t I Be You . Her short fiction has been published in the  Summerset Review  and  Slice , and nonfiction in the anthologies , I’m Not the Biggest Bitch in This Relationship  and  Author in Progress . She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, with her husband, Jeremy, and their fearful, faithful German Shepherd, Stella. Klappentext Girl meets dog in this effervescent "feel-good debut"(People) from the author of Why Can't I Be You-now celebrating it's 10th Anniversary! Savannah "Van" Leone has been in love with Peter Clarke since their first day of college. Six years later! Peter is marrying Van's best friend! Janie. Loyal to a fault! Van dons her pumpkin-orange! maid-of- honor gown and stands up for the couple! struggling to hide her true feelings even when she couldn't be more conspicuous. After the wedding! nursing her broken heart with a Rin Tin Tin marathon plus a vodka chaser! Van accidentally orders a German Shepherd puppy over the Internet. When "Joe" turns out to be a hundred-pound beast who only responds to commands in Slovak! Van is at the end of her rope-until she realizes that sometimes life needs to get more complicated before it can get better. Chapter One The wedding was more than I ever could have wished for. The church was dark and simple. White candles in glass sconces lined the gray stone walls, and a gigantic candelabra cast a golden glow on the altar. The pews were trimmed with sprigs of bittersweet and branches of Chinese lantern plant tied with brown and orange gauzy ribbons. The wedding was perfect, except for two things. The satin bridesmaids’ gowns that were ordered in deep, rich cinnamon showed up two days before the wedding and were bright Halloween pumpkin. And instead of standing across from the groom, beaming, I was standing across from his first cousin, Norman, smiling a hollow smile like a jack-o’-lantern. That, and I probably wouldn’t have gone with brown roses. I tried to talk Janie out of them. “Brown is the color of dead flowers, Janie.” “But they don’t look like dead flowers, Van. They’re elegant.” It was a lost cause. Martha Stewart Weddings had a spread of fall bouquets, and Janie’s mom made a ton of trips out to Connecticut to exactly the same florist to have exactly the same bouquets made for Janie’s wedding. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Janie’s cousin Libby standing next to me, dabbing at her eyes with a lace-trimmed handkerchief. Not only did she have the teary smile down, but she somehow managed to look fabulous in bright orange. I couldn’t see Bethany, Janie’s college friend, from where I was standing, but I was sure she was crying appropriately as well. She seemed like the type. At least she looked awful in her dress too. I spent the whole ceremony with my hands wrapped around my bouquet of bittersweet and Janie’s brown roses, digging my nails through my orange satin gloves into the back of my other hand. I missed the part about anyone having any reasons as to why these two blah blah blah blah blah . . . I missed the “I do’s” and all that crap. I just stood there and concentrated on pressing hard enough to feel pain through two layers of thick satin. I tried not to look at Peter, in his slate gray tuxedo and shiny shoes, as perfect as the porcelain groom Janie ordered for the top of their wedding cake. And I tried not to look at Janie, glowing in the reflection of candlelight sparkling off of the crystals hand-sewn along the neckline of her dress. I ...

Product details

• Authors: Allie Larkin
• Publisher: Plume USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.07.2011
• EAN: 9780452297128
• ISBN: 978-0-452-29712-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 201 mm x 18 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature