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Act Two: A Novel In Perfect Pitch (2008)

by Kimberly Stuart(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1434700119 (ISBN13: 9781434700117)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

David C. Cook

review 1: I was pleasantly surprised with this book. The book is about an old (40) opera star who is trying to figure out what to do in the next step in her life. Her shows aren't selling, and her voice just isn't what it used to be. Her agent suggests that she move to Iowa for a semester to teach at a small liberal arts school. The novel is about her life in Iowa as she tries to decide what act two of her life will be.The novel is well written and has pretty good character development. It is a light-hearted quick read (I read it in two days) and a perfect summer chick-lit book. The novel is easy to relate to for the country bumpkin as well as the NYC diva, and I was happy to say I really enjoyed the novel.
review 2: Forty-year-old Sadie Maddox is an opera singer but isn... more’t quite getting the high volume audience turn-out that she used to when she was younger. Sadie called a meeting with Avi Feldman, a high flautin agent who Sadie said only signed: “...a new client only if six-figures were involved”. She whole-heartedly agreed with Avi that she needed: “...a late career reinvention...”. Avi wanted Sadie to leave New York, go to Iowa and teach voice at Moravia College in Maplewood. Sadie was not impressed and this was not at all what she was expecting for a “career reinvention”. Supposedly, Avi had rented a bungalow for Sadie to live in while she was in Iowa. However, when Sadie deplanes she is met by someone from the University who tells her she’s sorry but the bungalow had been sold, there is only one hotel in town and it’s booked with students so Sadie will be living with a family on a pig farm! For Sadie, this was akin to telling Queen Elizabeth that she had to live in an outhouse.Then Sadie meets Mac, a veterinarian and she assumes they have nothing in common. He is a total country music fan and she’s counting the days until she can return to New York. When the semester ends, Sadie packs up and decamps for the city that never sleeps then finds that she can’t sleep either. Will Sadie find the courage and grace she needs to embrace her Act Two? less

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