Falling for Mr. Wrong,Used

From Booklist Falling for Mr. Wrong is easy when there are absolutely no Mr. Rights anywhere to be found in Upcher's novel of an unluckyinlove literary agent married to an unctuous, egotistical movie producer. Predictably, when Johnny walks out on Polly, she goes right into a disastrous affair with (you guessed it) an unctuous, egotistical movie actor. The book's promo materials promise us that one of them will be Polly's Mr. Right. Oh, really? Smart, savvy businesswoman though she may be, Polly is a hopeless doormat where men are concerned. She meets Hector, a womanizing movie star (imagine!) on the Riviera set of her husband's movie, where he calculatedly seduces then (surprise!) dumps her. So what does she do? Tries to win Johnny back. Throw in a supporting crew of cliched sycophants, nymphomaniacs, and hypocrites and you have a thoroughly unsympathetic and unsavory cast of caricatures. Fans of Upcher's usually relationshiprich novels will likely be disappointed by such fluff, but fans of supermarket tabloids will love it. Carol HaggasCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Product Description Giving up men and concentrating on her career as a literary agent after her ambitious film producer husband leaves her, Polly de Soto unexpectedly finds herself working with her exhusband when the movie rights for a book she discovered, entitled Mr. Wrong, are bought by his film company. Original. From Publishers Weekly Why do so many women swoon over sleaze? Upcher (Grace & Favor) investigates the ageold question with humor and verve. Goodnatured Polly de Soto spends most of her life editing imaginary dialogues in her head. While she has a wicked sense of humor (she gets rid of tiresome guests by stoking her woodstove with alarming zeal), Polly rarely speaks her mind directly. Her stepdaughter, Luana, calls her "Polly Pushover," while her film producer husband, Johnny, thinks of her as his secretary, script reviewer, dog watcher and cheerleader. When Johnny leaves her, Polly is forced to focus on herself for a change. She throws herself into her own job, running a literary agency, and soon discovers a bestseller called Mr. Wrong, about a gorgeous serial killer who kills beautiful young women as soon as they start to fall for him. Polly quickly sells film rights, and on the movie set she meets a dreamy stud whonatchturns out to be a dud. Polly realizes that she's fallen into the classic trap. "A woman knows who her Mr. Right is on paper, but when she meets him she's usually bored to tears. It's Mr. Wrong she falls in love with." She vows to embrace the single life, but just as she realizes how much she misses having a partner, she also discovers that her Mr. Right has been waiting in the wings all along. Polly is a likable spaz, and Upcher paints the literary and film worlds in delicious detail. Though the ending is implausibly tidy, fans of her first two witty pageturners won't be disappointed. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.