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Four Dollars And Fifty-One Cents

by Lass Small

Published 1990ISBN 978-0-3730-5613-2

**Back Cover Blurb:** *GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE...* The truth was, Jan Folger had never really given Junior Busby a second thought--even though he'd lived next door to her for about a million years. But her charity group was holding a bachelor auction. They needed one more eligible man to put on the block...and she supposed Junior would just have to do. Then the local paper went and ran a photo of the fully grown Junior--wearing jeans and a five o'clock shadow--and suddenly it seemed like every woman in Byford, Indiana, wanted to know him better--a whole lot better. And Jan was starting to wonder if maybe she hadn't overlooked a hot property right there in her own neighborhood

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Nonfiction, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Romance · Nonfiction · Fiction

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

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Four Dollars And Fifty-One CentsLass Small
Powerful4.6/5

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A quick reading snapshot

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Reading lengthLength not listed
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1990
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Nonfiction and Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-3730-5613-2
Language
English
Edition record
OL10735667M
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Good to know

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Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
  2. How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
  3. Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.