The trick in both books is that Susan Isaacs makes us care passionately about her characters.īoth books are equally hard to put down once you start, but what do you care? It's not like you have a movie to watch. Author Isaacs, Susan Book Condition Used - Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages, some soiling to the dj.) Jacket Condition near fine Binding Hardcover Publisher Harper & Row, Place of Publication New York: Date Published 1988. You will need several kleenex to get through the last few pages, trust me. It made me laugh out loud on one page then had me in tears a few pages later. In ALMOST PARADISE, the romance of Jane and Nicky begins before they were born, and the book takes us through their lifetimes. The love of nation and of freedom is also accented.

The joke was on me however, where these two novels are concerned, for they have great characters and such stories of love! SHINING THROUGH is also a W.W.II thriller, with the heroine infiltrating the house of a Nazi official. Shining Through book by Susan Isaacs Literature & Fiction Books > Contemporary Literature Books ISBN: 0873959914 ISBN13: 9780873959919 Invisible Politics: Black Political Behavior by Susan Isaacs See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.19 Paperback 3.99 Mass Market Paperback 4. Unlike a lot of best-selling authors, she doesn't write the same novel again. Both of these books are marvelous romances, and it took me a long time to get around to reading them, for I was a snob, and didn't 'read romances'. Sadly, such is the case for both ALMOST PARADISE and SHINING THROUGH.ĭo yourself a big favor and beware the screen. The story is told in the first person, from Linda’s perspective, and her matter-of-fact intelligence shines through. As a publisher, one of the things I hate the most is when big screen movies and made-for-TV movies take really well written, interesting stores and make horrible movies out of them And in doing so turn thousands of people away from a truly enjoyable reading experiences. The heroine’s relationship with her mother is especially poignant.

Shining Through by Susan Isaacs