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Torn Between Two Lovers, Feelin' Like a Fool |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Gail Donohue Storey's The Lord's Motel |
| Author: Richard Quebedeaux |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 1,922 Words, 11,223 Characters |
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"Is it better to have fun with a kinky man or to be gloomy with a good one?" Colleen Sweeney is the central character in Gail Donohue Storey's first novel, The Lord's Motel, and the aforementioned question, which Colleen asks at the start of the first chapter, tells it all. Indeed, it often is the case that asking the right question is more important than getting the right answer, and in this book, good questions figure far more prominently than answers of any kind.
In a word, The Lord's Motel is the story of one woman's search for "true love" in an era when that kind of love has lost its meaning. The sexual revolution of the 1960s and '70s was, in part, the glorification of erotic love over all other forms of love, including agape, the self-giving brotherly and sisterly love discuss...
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...amily, giving them meaning and purpose beyond themselves.
True love doesn't just mean fidelity, though it does mean that. Rather, it finds its ultimate raison d'etre beyond itself, as a pivotal contributor both to its own community and to the world around it. The Lord's Motel opens the door to true love but doesn't tell us how to go through it or what to do once we reach the other side.
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