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Bobbie Lamont #4
The Distance Between
Bobbie Lamont has just graduated from college. Her on and off affair with her English professor has ended and she is heart broken. Believing that life without love isn't worth living, she decides to kill herself on her twenty-second birthday. And then three days before the Fourth of July, she meets Miller Hoffman and her life changes. In Miller, a bright but troubled seventeen year old boy from Phoenix, Arizona, she will find the love she's been searching for her whole life.
292 pages, Paperback
First published September 15, 2015
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About the author
Zelmer Wilson
12 books47 followersZelmer Wilson (born 1 July 1975 in Fort Collins, Colorado) is an American author.
He discovered that he wanted to be a writer when he was fifteen years old during the summer of 1990 while in Birmingham, Alabama, visiting his mother and two sisters.
He spent the next few years trying to write a novel. At first, because he was reading science-fiction at the time, he tried to write a science-fiction novel.
It was when he was twenty-one years old that he read Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer for the first time. He then realized that he could use his own life as the basis or inspiration for a story.
He finished the first draft of his first novel several years later, in August of 2001. He then spent the next year re-writing it. He tried to get it published, but failed. He has since lost it.
He didn't gave up, though and spent the next few years writing other novels while working a full time forty hour a week job. His debut novel, In the Middle, is inspired by his own difficult teenage years in Phoenix, Arizona.
He discovered that he wanted to be a writer when he was fifteen years old during the summer of 1990 while in Birmingham, Alabama, visiting his mother and two sisters.
He spent the next few years trying to write a novel. At first, because he was reading science-fiction at the time, he tried to write a science-fiction novel.
It was when he was twenty-one years old that he read Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer for the first time. He then realized that he could use his own life as the basis or inspiration for a story.
He finished the first draft of his first novel several years later, in August of 2001. He then spent the next year re-writing it. He tried to get it published, but failed. He has since lost it.
He didn't gave up, though and spent the next few years writing other novels while working a full time forty hour a week job. His debut novel, In the Middle, is inspired by his own difficult teenage years in Phoenix, Arizona.
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August 18, 2015
Reviewed for Readers Favorite
With college graduation only recently behind her, Bobbie Lamont had given up on life, she thought she had experienced all life had to offer and that she would never find love again. Enter Miller, a young and somewhat different seventeen year old, who spent the summer teaching Bobbie that there was so much more yet to experience in life. The Distance Between is the story of young love, and not so young love, of a seventeen year old and a twenty-two year old, but who have so much in common, and who teach each other how to live again. Author Zelmer Wilson takes a typical girl been dumped response, there is nothing else out there, and turns it into a new adventure with someone completely unexpected.
The Distance Between is a unique look at emotions and thoughts. Bobbie is a deeply emotional person, writing everything down into millions o pages of diary, yet when she is dumped by her latest boyfriend, she is ready to give up. To run into another reader/writer like herself in Miller, even if he is five years younger than her seems like the lifeline she needs and it becomes just that. Author Zelmer Wilson not only writes about the life o this one character, Bobbie Lamont, but about the need of all people to be able to connect with someone that sees the world the same way they do regardless of age or distance. Although the book is filled with a lot of drinking and smoking, typical of the time period that it is written in, I still feel it is a good read for young adults as well as adults. There are some good things to be learned here.
With college graduation only recently behind her, Bobbie Lamont had given up on life, she thought she had experienced all life had to offer and that she would never find love again. Enter Miller, a young and somewhat different seventeen year old, who spent the summer teaching Bobbie that there was so much more yet to experience in life. The Distance Between is the story of young love, and not so young love, of a seventeen year old and a twenty-two year old, but who have so much in common, and who teach each other how to live again. Author Zelmer Wilson takes a typical girl been dumped response, there is nothing else out there, and turns it into a new adventure with someone completely unexpected.
The Distance Between is a unique look at emotions and thoughts. Bobbie is a deeply emotional person, writing everything down into millions o pages of diary, yet when she is dumped by her latest boyfriend, she is ready to give up. To run into another reader/writer like herself in Miller, even if he is five years younger than her seems like the lifeline she needs and it becomes just that. Author Zelmer Wilson not only writes about the life o this one character, Bobbie Lamont, but about the need of all people to be able to connect with someone that sees the world the same way they do regardless of age or distance. Although the book is filled with a lot of drinking and smoking, typical of the time period that it is written in, I still feel it is a good read for young adults as well as adults. There are some good things to be learned here.
October 28, 2015
This is a lovely story. I really enjoyed the family relationships as well as the ups and downs of the young lovers. It was wonderful to see them finally come into their own as they faced the end of their time together. A good read.
October 23, 2015
This was an excellent love story. It hooked me from the first page. Great characters! The story will keep you interested and anxious to get to the ending. I have read the other Bobbie Lamont books but will now go back and read them.
August 21, 2015
Reviewed by Chris Fischer for Readers' Favorite
Twenty-one-year-old Bobbie Lamont has had enough. Tired of everything her life has to offer, she’s not sure where to go next. In author Zelmer Wilson’s fourth installment of the Bobbie Lamont series, The Distance Between, we find Bobbie at a real crossroads in her life. She’s just graduated from Tulane University, and she thinks now will be the time that her relationship with English professor Lawrence Harris will finally progress to the next stage. Instead, she finds herself dumped right after graduation, and truly alone for the first time in several years. Finding herself at a loose end as she has time before she needs to move to New York to start her new job, she decides to spend the time with her Aunt Gina in Birmingham, Alabama. It’s there that she meets her next love, the lovely but troubled Miller Hoffman. Their relationship is complicated by Miller’s youth, the objections of his mother, her aunt’s reservations, and Bobbie’s impending move, but the young couple is determined to make it work.
The Distance Between is an engaging, engrossing read that will have you sucked in from the very first page. Author Zelmer Wilson’s most recent entry in his winning series featuring Bobbie Lamont will keep you rooting for young Bobbie and her new love, even through all of the obstacles they face. The Distance Between will appeal to any reader who loves romances, stories about couples facing difficult odds, and those who like a good read in general. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and very much look forward to Mr. Wilson’s next work.
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