Better Luck Next Time (Barnes & Noble Book Club Edition)
by Julia Claiborne Johnson
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0063094460
- ISBN 13
- 9780063094468
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A breath of fresh air in the historical fiction space, Better Luck Next Time is a character-driven romp that is funny, fierce and full of heart. Ward, our fearless narrator and hard-working ranch hand, takes us through his transformative summer of 1938 in Reno, Nevada, where we meet the two women who changed his life. A true gem of a book.
This Barnes & Noble Book Club Edition includes an essay from the author on the origins of the story, an extra chapter, and a reading group guide.
"Do you want to read something funny? Let's say, a novel set at a divorce ranch in Reno in the 1930s? A book with memorably eccentric characters, sparkling dialogue, a satisfying plot twist, and some romance and sex? A feel-good literary comedy/western? Here it is, then, the book you've been looking for: Julia Claiborne Johnson's Better Luck Next Time."—Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement
The eagerly anticipated second novel from the bestselling author of Be Frank with Me, a charming story of endings, new beginnings, and the complexities and complications of friendship and love, set in late 1930s Reno.
It's 1938 and women seeking a quick, no-questions split from their husbands head to the "divorce capital of the world," Reno, Nevada. There's one catch: they have to wait six-weeks to become "residents." Many of these wealthy, soon-to-be divorcees flock to the Flying Leap, a dude ranch that caters to their every need.
Twenty-four-year-old Ward spent one year at Yale before his family lost everything in the Great Depression; now he's earning an honest living as a ranch hand at the Flying Leap. Admired for his dashing good looks—"Cary Grant in cowboy boots"—Ward thinks he's got the Flying Leap's clients all figured out. But two new guests are about to upend everything he thinks he knows: Nina, a St Louis heiress and amateur pilot back for her third divorce, and Emily, whose bravest moment in life was leaving her cheating husband back in San Francisco and driving herself to Reno.
A novel about divorce, marriage, and everything that comes in between (money, class, ambition, and opportunity), Better Luck Next Time is a hilarious yet poignant examination of the ways friendship can save us, love can destroy us, and the family we create can be stronger than the family we come from.
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- MICHELLE YARNELL (US)
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- Better Luck Next Time
- Title
- Better Luck Next Time (Barnes & Noble Book Club Edition)
- Author
- Julia Claiborne Johnson
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0063094460
- ISBN 13
- 9780063094468
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Date Published
- 2021
- Pages
- 288
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