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Innocent Spouse: A Memoir (2011)

by Carol Ross Joynt(Favorite Author)

3.13 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

030759209X (ISBN13: 9780307592095)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Crown

review 1: 3.0 stars. It is always interesting to me to see how a woman in this day and age can allow herself to live like a 50s housewife (although with a great job snagging talent for Larry King Live) and then -- as in so many similar stories -- learn that her glamorous life is based on lies, cheating, and deception. For me, the discovery part of the story is predictable, it's the recovery that's of interest. In this book, the discovery is long, the reaction longer and the recovery with a little less detail than I wanted. What did exactly happen with the IRS? What did happen with the lrest of her love life? Why did she need that weird thing with Paolo (which I didn't really buy anyways)? Why did she keep saying she would never again leave a document unread or a legal explan... moreation unexplained, and then she did just that with her last lawyers? And what is she living on now?Anyways, I'm glad I read it -- I always learn from the women before me. But it wouldn't be on the top of my list on a desert island.
review 2: This was enthusiastically recommended to me by a friend and I took it with me on a long airplane trip. I was disappointed; too long, too repetitive and rather self-serving, I thought. The bare facts of the story are fascinating: the author was widowed in her 40s and her adored husband was revealed to be hugely dishonest and manipulative. Like another reviewer, I would have liked to know more about the IRS process of deciding she was an "innocent spouse", rather than what she wore to the various meetings with her lawyers. The constant name-dropping was, after the first couple of times, really irritating. One can appreciate her grit and determination to make a life for herself and her son, but there were too many details about the fluff and too few about the meat, and the writing itself was rather mediocre. less

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