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West Hollywood East: Fay Jacobs Shares Rehoboth Beach, Delaware If ever there were a time for the release of this book that time is right now! Fay Jacobs is a treasure - a combination of Mark Twain, Lily Tomlin, Gertrude Stein, and Laurel and Hardy all wrapped up in one fine writer and humorist. Who knew all the ins and outs of the life in Rehoboth Beach? It is as pungent as diaries from Provincetown and West Hollywood and Fire Island with a solid dollop of laughter thrown in for good measure. Jacobs take everyday occurrences that feed her columns and dishes them out like piquant soufflés at whose core dwells the humor that can be found in almost everything. Her take on politics (at times acerbic but with very good reason...), on interpersonal relationships, on life's embarrassing moments, and on simple observations of how people react to the world and to news of the day and to each other provides a much needed grounding. How this talented observer can turn sow's ears into silk purses is wonderfully puzzling and at all times entertaining. But another aspect of her writing is the manner in which she embraces her own sexuality and hence the sexuality of this apparently skewed population of Rehoboth Beach and makes it so very normal and universal, never for a moment biting or moaning about injustices or prejudices, but instead replacing those tendencies with down home humor. We need a lot of Fay Jacobs around, but sense she is a unique lady we must all grab her books and .... breathe! Grady Harp

This is a novelization of the movie Now & Then. It is not the book that the movie Now & Then is based on. This is a very important distinction. There is absolutely nothing new in this book that is not in the film. It's basically a narration of the movie. Therefore, if you've seen the movie, there's no reason to read this book. Also, the movie is better. Don't bother. Don't bother at all. (On the positive side, it is extremely accurate in its description of the film. Not that it's terribly hard to do that.)