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Coming Out

by Danielle Steel

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I couldn't get past the info dump on the first five pages. I took to opening up random passages, and found she was writign summaries of scenes instead of telling a story. This is the first Danielle Steele book I have read and it quickly determined this would be the last. The son's big secret was no secret at all, but it was the reason I picked up the book at all. I was interested to see what a romance writer would have to say. Unfortunately, I couldn't even get to that part. ( )
  ruststar | Oct 18, 2008 |
When Olympia's twin daughters receive an invitation to come out at the Arches, she accepts on their behalf without a second thought. Little does she realise that such a seemingly small event will wreak havoc on her family. Fine, but lacking something. ( )
  Elishibai | Apr 28, 2008 |
A great book about debutantes and society and prejudice.
  onthehill | Oct 22, 2007 |
A quick, boring, and predictable read from Steel. The characters were very under-developed, the storyline shallow and just nothing to really get entertained about. This is just one of others from Steel I was not at all impressed with. ( )
  raggedtig | Apr 18, 2007 |
I didn't care for Coming Out by Danielle Steel, about twin girls who get invited to an old-fashioned high society debutante ball. This creates conflict between the girls and their family members: one girl is excited about it, one rebels and refuses to have any part of it, the Jewish stepfather boycotts it due to it being mainly "WASP' society, the mother insists they do it because she herself did it at their age, the holocaust survivor grandmother just wants to have one glam night out, the son finally decides to "come out" (but nobody really cares one way or another). So the plot is very weak and predictable, the characters are shallow and one dimensional, the writing is boring...I just didn't care about any of the characters at all and if this book wasn't so short (less than 200 pages) I never would have finished it. I don't even know why I picked it up - the cover maybe? I haven't read her books in the last five years or so, but I read most of her earlier books as a teenager. Those I found smart and engrossing...what the hell happened? It's almost as if a completely different writer wrote this blah book. ( )
  jaltergott23 | Mar 1, 2007 |
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Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy legal career, a solid marriage, and a way of managing her thriving family with grace, humor, and boundless energy. With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be no challenge to which Olympia cannot rise. Until one sunny day in May, when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New York–and chaos erupts all around her. One twin’s excitement is balanced by the other’s outrage; her previous husband’s profound snobbism is in sharp contrast to her current husband’s flat refusal to attend.

For Olympia’s husband, Harry, whose parents survived the Holocaust, the idea of a blue-blood debutante ball is abhorrent. Her daughter Veronica, a natural-born rebel, agrees–while Veronica’s identical twin, Virginia, is already shopping for the perfect dress. Then there’s Olympia’s ex, an insufferable snob, who sees the ball as the perfect opportunity for a family feud. And amid all the hubbub, Olympia’s college-age son, Charlie, is facing a turning point in his life–and may need his mother more than ever. But despite it all, Olympia is determined to steer her family through the event until, just days before the cotillion, things begin to unravel with alarming speed.

From a son’s crisis to a daughter’s heartbreak, from a case of the chicken pox to a political debate raging in her household, Olympia is on the verge of surrender. And that is when, in a series of startling choices and changes of heart, family, friends, and even a blue-haired teenager all find a way to turn a night of calamity into an evening of magic. As old wounds are healed, barriers are shattered and new traditions are born, and a debutante ball becomes a catalyst for change, revelation, acceptance, and love.

In a novel that is by turns profound, poignant, moving, and warmly funny, Danielle Steel tells the story of an extraordinary family–finding new ways of letting go, stepping up, and coming out...in the ways that matter most.

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