Separate Beds by LaVyrle Spencer
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(Mass Market Paperback - Reissue)
- Pub. Date: October 1986
- 400pp
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: October 1986
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 400pp
- ISBN-13: 9780515090376
- ISBN: 0515090379
- Edition Description: Reissue
Synopsis
Readers have long flocked to the works of LaVyrle Spencer, one of America's most cherished storytellers. From The Fulfillment to Morning Glory to Then Came Heaven, her touching, emotionally charged novels have examined love in all its forms. In Separate Beds, two attractive, headstrong people meet - and fireworks ensue.
Catherine Anderson and Clay Forrester come from two completely different worlds, but one blind date leaves them forever linked. Clay, a handsome law student, and Catherine, a serious, bookish undergrad, experience an evening they will never forget. Fortified by the beauty of the night, as well as a bottle of wine, they share a night together. A few short months later, Catherine discovers she's pregnant. They agree to a marriage of convenience, an arrangement that suits them both - until they begin to fall in love.
Moving and deeply affecting, Separate Beds is a celebration of the healing power of love.
Biography
LaVyrle Spencer has written many New York Times Bestsellers including Heart Speaks, Then Came Heaven, and Sweet Memories. Her books Home Song, Family Blessings, The Fulfillment, and Morning Glory were all made into TV movies. LaVryle Spencer lives in Minnesota.
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Disappointed but still hopeful, An Avid Readerby Anonymous
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February 16, 2007: Separate Beds (Catherine Marie Anderson & Clay Elgin Forrester)------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Clay makes a vow to persevere and sympathize with Catherine?s unwillingness to open up due to her troubled childhood, but reneges on his secret vow as soon as he faces some resistance from her.----------------------------------- Circumstance has forced her to grow up quickly, stuck in a house with an abusive and alcoholic father who refused to claim her as his own until he deemed it convenient. She is trying to make it in a cruel world where everyone seems to be for themselves. Tenaciously, she tries to make it on her own and does not accept aid from others gracefully. He has recognized that she cannot give her heart easily, especially to someone who is not sure he has feelings for her that go beyond the sexual tension between them. She deserves to be more than just a vessel for his lust. -------------------------- She allowed him to use her that way once, when the using was mutual. At a time when she was trying to escape from her cloyingly abusive past, and he was venting his anger from a superfluous fight with his girlfriend. He tends to complicate his problems in relationships by engaging in sexual encounters with other women. Why do men feel the need to cheapen a union that is supposed to be meaningful and beautiful by using it as an improper outlet for their angst and frustration? What seems like an easy way out only complicates their current situation. It is not even a positive effective solution, temporary or otherwise. -----------------A majority of men always seem to choose the most damaging route that adversely affects the most people. Why do we, as women, tend to have a masochistic nature when it comes to men and our relationships with them? We seem to relish martyrdom so much that we are willing to forgive them anything. Terrified of being alone, some stay in these destructive, self-flagellating relationships, clinging to men that clearly have no respect for women. They practically bludgeon us over the head with their lack of respect when they cheat on us and verbally, sometimes even physically, abuse us, but as long as they say they love you at the end of the day that?s supposed to make everything ok. I never understood how one could continue to love someone that treated them so badly. That is not love, but a cop out and an insult to the pulchritude of love. One who does not love and respect themselves first cannot truly recognize and cherish it when it is given, nor leave when it has not been reciprocated. Those that choose to stay in damaging relationships and call it love have earned my contempt, as do novels that perpetuate this type of behaviour.----------------------------------Although the ending of this novel is endearing, it does not truly redeem itself in my eyes. I could not, would not suffer through it again.
A Sweet Favoriteby Anonymous
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July 26, 2006: This is one of Lavyrle Spencers best. One of my favorite books of all time. It is so good, I have it in Hardcover & paperback, 3 copies! Get it, read it, enjoy it!
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