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Des Hommes Ordinaires (2013)

by Eric Arvin(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

162380003X (ISBN13: 9781623800031)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dreamspinner Press

review 1: A sweet simple story about a simple man who is blindsided by love. Of course Chip was not such a simple man and neither was Foster. Love is simple but we make it complex. There are no bad guys. There are some stupid people and some immature people, but it is a college campus. The supporting characters are important to the story. I enjoyed Brad and Jason and their beginnings of maturity. The writing is what kept this story from being trite. Eric Arvin can use words in the best of ways.
review 2: This quiet, funny, understated book says a lot about love in all its simplicity and glory. There are no deep, dark secrets, no soap opera misunderstandings or hospital bed confessions here. This is about life in a small college campus in America. The college ha... mores a football team that loses, a lot and a coach called 'Chip' whose disappointment at the losses and his own lacklustre relationships with women, is eased and changed by a smile from the Chaplain. Students, Brad and Jason start to really grow up when they understand first love, forget 'rotten eggs'and realise that they are gay...I loved Brad's introduction to the Gay and Straight Alliance! Overseeing this haven of tranquility and metaphor is 'Wendell' the President who attributes all his kindness and good deeds to the love of his life, his now dead wife. His brand of humility and good humour, for me, put him with the simple men of the title.There is sexual tension aplenty and releases of that tension are intimated but this book does not provide, or need, graphic, explicit sexual acts.I think Eric Arvin is a simple man and a quiet genius. less

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