Anyone Whose Heart's Been Had

By Ted Randler
Published by Palari Publishing
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Published: Sep. 03, 2011
Words: 52,579 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781928662747

Short description

Sex, love & marriage are up for grabs when the women of Anyone Whose Heart's Been Had attempt to take control of their destiny--for better or worse--and end up as dinner guests at the legendary Valerie Hotel in Richmond, VA. Set in the politically‑correct '90s, Ted Randlerʼs novel is a dark comedy of 15 disparate characters whose lives intersect through messy, but necessary, romantic intrigues.

Extended description

Sex, love and marriage are up for grabs when the women of "Anyone Whose Heart's Been Had" attempt to take control of their destiny--for better or worse--and end up as dinner guests at the legendary Valerie Hotel one fateful evening.

“What does getting married have to offer you that you havenʼt already got?” famed feminist Muffy Griggslet Hart challenges the other guests
at power-table thirty-four in this multi‑generational love story set in the politically‑correct nineties. Ted Randlerʼs novel is a dark comedy of fifteen disparate characters whose lives intersect when Muffy is invited to speak in Richmond.

Through the messy, but necessary, romantic intrigues wherein everyone gets what they want and nobody wants what they get, the Claremont family is rattled when their disturbed matriarch, Peggy--inspired by the Marriage Abolitionist's appearance on The Phil Donahue Show--decides to liberate herself from her “disposed-of” life.

Retta, her romance‑junkie of a daughte.. (Read more) Sex, love and marriage are up for grabs when the women of "Anyone Whose Heart's Been Had" attempt to take control of their destiny--for better or worse--and end up as dinner guests at the legendary Valerie Hotel one fateful evening.

“What does getting married have to offer you that you havenʼt already got?” famed feminist Muffy Griggslet Hart challenges the other guests
at power-table thirty-four in this multi‑generational love story set in the politically‑correct nineties. Ted Randlerʼs novel is a dark comedy of fifteen disparate characters whose lives intersect when Muffy is invited to speak in Richmond.

Through the messy, but necessary, romantic intrigues wherein everyone gets what they want and nobody wants what they get, the Claremont family is rattled when their disturbed matriarch, Peggy--inspired by the Marriage Abolitionist's appearance on The Phil Donahue Show--decides to liberate herself from her “disposed-of” life.

Retta, her romance‑junkie of a daughter is recruited by Peggy's stoic husband, Hunter, to rectify matters only to have their lives spin out of control when Retta arrives with the lusty and exotic Rusty Alchopt.
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literary, romantic comedy, richmond virginia, southern fiction, southern gothic, feminist humor, chic lit, social novel, contemporay romance

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