Book jacket image for Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell

William Morrow

9780063380196

STARRED REVIEW

Slow Dance

Witty, insightful and uncompromising, Rainbow Rowell’s Slow Dance is an emotionally charged and beautifully real romance.

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Review of ‘Slow Dance’

A chunk of the chapters of Rainbow Rowell’s Slow Dance begin with the word “before.” Before, when they were high schoolers in Omaha, Nebraska, Cary and Shiloh were “odd couple” best friends. Quiet and focused, Cary was the straitlaced Navy ROTC kid. Shiloh was the theater nerd, the counterculture girl who could…

Behind the Book by Rainbow Rowell

“Shakespeare ended so many of his lighter plays with weddings only because he didn't have prom at his disposal.”

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