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Lugano Holiday

by Virginia C. Taylor

198 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-0188; ISBN 1-55395-825-X; US$19.50, C$22.95, EUR16.00, £11.50

Affairs of the heart add spice to life. Set in magestic Switzerland, Lugano Holiday is a love story merging the affairs of a young couple and a middle aged couple.

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About the Book Lugano Holiday is based on the real-life experiences of the author, Virginia C. Taylor. The story unravels as the protagonist travels throughout Switzerland, and makes observations about the country, which although is approximately the size of Maine, has a population of 3-4 million people. The novel uncovers, among other things, that there is more to Switzerland than cheese and chocolate!

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About the Author Virginia C. Taylor is the mother of six children and nine grandchildren. She was born in Springfield, Massachusettes, and has since lived in Massachusettes, Georgia and Maine. She left Maine after the death of her husband in 1989 and now resides in New Hampshire. Mrs. Taylor was a member of the State of Maine Writer's Conferences for 27 years, where she won many writing contests and conducted classes in creative writing. Although she could not afford to go to college in her youth, she has always encouraged her children to attend college, and is proud of them for having done so.

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Sample Excerpts

Chapter 6d

In Basel, a young man who had been drinking more than he should, drove with careful determination along deserted streets toward his home in Riehen-bei-Basel, close to the border of France. That morning-after shaving his ruggedly handsome face, combing his black, curly hair, admiring his own husky physique, and feeling quite satisfied with himself -he had phoned Rosina to tell her he was driving down to Zürich. The news that she was gone-for a whole week-along with a refusal to tell him where, had so infuriated Karl Niederer he almost forgot to say a polite, "Thank you. I will come down next Sunday." He had remained in control-for only that long!

Clenching both his teeth and his fists, he hissed, angrily, "She cannot do this to me!"

Still seething, he reviewed his list of girl friends and telephoned the most acquiescent-the one who would refuse him nothing. However, the long day, spent with an empty-headed Fraulein, whose only attributes were fun and sex, had in no way helped his deflated ego.

In his driveway, he turned off the car's ignition and stared absently through the windshield. Excusing his boorish behavior, he rationalized, "I would have no need of... trollops... if Rosina were not such an icicle!" He recalled how two weeks earlier they had discussed quite frankly their feelings for each other. She had asked why he did not find someone who could be a more loving, responsive wife.

"Because it is you I want! It is you I love!"

"But Karl," she responded with utter desolation, "I do not feel like that. I have no passionate response to your embrace."

"You would, if you would let me show you," he coaxed. "You could be different. You could...love me."

He remembered how she had stiffened as he swept his hand between her thighs and whispered in her ear, "Please... let me try?"

Her repeated, almost hysterical, "No, no, no!" still rang in his ears. Now he bent over to look at the dashboard clock.

Thinking aloud, he vowed with vehemence! "Damn her passive resistance! Next time I get her along, I won't take any... no, no, no! I will show her who is boss!"

Then, blinking his eyes to see more clearly, he finally observed that both hands on the luminous dial pointed straight upward.

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