So Long at the Fair, (Paperback)

from picklechic

Wow! I enjoyed this book right up until the end. The book was written as flashbacks between the past and the present. The present day story takes place of the course on one day and focuses on a wife, Ginny, and a husband, Jon, who is having an affair with a coworker. Jon is conflicted and unsure ...

from carmarie

I really enjoyed this book. It became a little confusing at times when she would flash us back to 1963 and we had to kind of untangle who people were and who their children turned out to be. But, a clever story...although the ending left us hanging. Ugh.

from readingrat

The main story in So Long at the Fair takes place over the course of one Saturday in the lives of Jon and Ginny, a married couple who had been high school sweethearts. Their relationship has stagnated and Jon is having an affair with a co-worker, which has progressed to the point where Jon must m...

from DetailMuse

So Long at the Fair tracks a day in the marriage of a contemporary thirtysomething couple: a quarrel, the husband escaping to his lover, the wife teetering on the brink of discovery of his affair. Schwarz's confident exploration of this quiet story in a Midwestern setting feels pleasingly old-fas...

from silverheron

So Long at the Fair A Novel By Christina Schwarz Doubleday, Publisher ISBN: 978-0-385-51029-5 I originally was interested in reading this book because of the title and the location. I was born and raised in North Eastern Ohio in 1962 so the life that the main characters of this book lived is very...