Painted Dresses
Shelby Hearon. Warner Books, $9.99 (270pp) ISBN 978-0-446-39284-6
Hearon spins a wryly compassionate tale of love the second time around for two complex adults. (June)
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Reviewed on: 06/01/1992
Genre: Fiction
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