Chat by Nan McCarthy (1998, Paperback, Reprint) 
Chat by Nan McCarthy (1998, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Chat by Nan McCarthy (1998, Paperback, Reprint)

Author: Nan McCarthy
Publisher: Pocket Books
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
Series: Cyberseries, No. 1
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 067102339X
ISBN-13: 9780671023393
Product ID: EPID824295
Description: An epistolary novel with a twist--e-mail. It tells the story of Bev and Max who meet in the Writer's Forum, an on-line chat group. Bev, who is married, finds Max attractive, but it is the computer show Macworld that provides the impetus ...
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Synopsis
An epistolary novel with a twist--e-mail. It tells the story of Bev and Max who meet in the Writer's Forum, an on-line chat group. Bev, who is married, finds Max attractive, but it is the computer show Macworld that provides the impetus in their relationship.

Details
Publication Date:1998-10-01
Series:Cyberseries, No. 1
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:123 pages
Height:6.5 in
Width:4.8 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:4.0 oz

Publisher's Note
A "Griffin & Sabine" for the '90s, this trilogy of byte-sized novels chronicles a love affair that develops through an Internet chat session. "A refreshing twist" ("Publishers Weekly") on the usual girl-meets-boy story.

Industry Reviews
McCarthy's isn't the first e-mail epistolary novel (though it was rather newer when she self-published it in 1995), but it is better than most. By clever combinations of e-mail, live chat, emoticons and computer shortcuts, she gives the headstrong-girl-meets-self-sufficient-boy story a refreshing twist. Bev (BevJ@frederic_gerard.com) and Max (Maximilian@miller&morris.com) meet in a chat group called Writer's Forum, after which Max e-mails her, asking about jobs. The married Bev is understandably leery of starting a correspondence with someone she imagines to be yet another loser cyberloon, but soon finds him to be neither a loser nor a loon and, in fact, rather charming. Then comes the computer show, Macworld, which, in this context (and probably only in this context) turns out to be a catalyst in their relationship. The novel begins a little awkwardly, with the computer-literate Bev stopping to explain online acronyms (there is both a glossary and a schematic of emoticons at the book's end) and the writing, perhaps purposefully, never transcends serviceable e-mail patter. Still, McCarthy does convey the freedom of electronic anonymity, and the resulting novel, if slight, is a perfectly enjoyable way to spend a few minutes. (Sept.)
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