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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: Reese's Book Club (A Novel) (original 2018; edition 2018)

by Gail Honeyman (Author)

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Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.… (more)
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Title:Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
Authors:Gail Honeyman (Author)
Info:Penguin Books (2018), Edition: Reprint, 352 pages
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (2018)

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Terrible, just terrible. Got to pg 85 and said….I can’t take this anymore! Done and will donate it. Waste of time and money. ( )
  MarlineWillis | Jun 19, 2024 |
This is a lovely book. It has a very strong emotional core which can be difficult to read, but the mood is constantly lightened with delightful humour. Eleanor is an alternately troubled and hilarious character, quite unlike any other character I can think of in literature. ( )
  Rory_Bergin | Jun 11, 2024 |
So I started out with thinking that Eleanor is a really unlikable, arrogant, condescending character - and then I thought “possibly neurodivergent?” But then you’re introduced to the psycho mum and it’s more like “oh, it’s severe childhood trauma”.
This book is definitely darker than the blurb suggests and it’s sandwiched with quiet, mundane events in Eleanore’s life.
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  spiritedstardust | Jun 1, 2024 |
I don't have the words yet to articulate how much I adored this book. I didn't want it to end! ( )
  kdegour23 | May 29, 2024 |
I’d give this book a 3.5. Eleanor Oliphant is endearing. You ended up loving her as a character and her development and healing. I didn’t go in knowing it was quite such a heavy story. Was a bit slow, but worth the read, for the two main characters. Would not reread and I didn't love the weird thing with her mom being dead but her still having phone conversations with here. ( )
  saaellis | May 9, 2024 |
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The human need for connection, initially scorned by Eleanor, is this heart-rending novel’s central theme. Eleanor Oliphant is most definitely not completely fine, but she is one of the most unusual and thought-provoking heroines of recent contemporary fiction.
added by SimoneA | editThe Irish Times, Sarah Gilmartin (Jul 22, 2017)
 
From pop-star crushes to meals for one, the life of an outsider is vividly captured in this joyful debut, discovered through a writing competition and sold for huge sums worldwide...And what a joy it is. The central character of Eleanor feels instantly and insistently real...This is a narrative full of quiet warmth and deep and unspoken sadness. It makes you want to throw a party and invite everyone you know and give them a hug, even that person at work everyone thinks is a bit weird.
added by SimoneA | editThe Guardian, Jenny Colgan (May 4, 2017)
 
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Beretta, StefanoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Mörk, Ylva—secondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Maire, LauraErzählersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Canonical title
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Original title
Alternative titles
Original publication date
2017-05-09
People/Characters
Eleanor Oliphant (Eleanor Smyth)
Raymond Gibbons
Samuel "Sammy" McMurray Thom
Mummy (Sharon Smyth)
Mrs Gibbons
Important places
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Important events
Related movies
Epigraph
Dedication
For my family
First words
When people ask me what I do - taxi drivers, hairdressers - I tell them I work in an office.
Quotations
Sport is a mystery to me. In primary school, sports day was the one day of the year when the less academically gifted students could triumph, winning prizes for jumping fastest in a sack, or running from point A to point B more quickly than their classmates. How they loved to wear those badges on their blazers the next day, as if a silver in the egg and spoon race was some sort of compensation for not understanding how to use an apostrophe.
I have always enjoyed reading, but I've never been sure how to select appropriate material. There are so many books in the world—how do you tell them all apart? How do you know which one will match your tastes and interests? That's why I just pick the first book I see. There's no point trying to choose. The covers are of very little help, because they always say only good things, and I've found out to my cost that they're rarely accurate. "Exhilarating" "Dazzling" "Hilarious." No.
She was shiny too, her skin, her hair, her shoes, her teeth. I hadn't even realized before; I am matte, dull, scuffed.
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Publisher's editors
Ashby, Martha
Dorman, Pamela
Blurbers
Moyes, Jojo
Awad, Mona
Barton, Fiona
Stradal, J. Ryan
Evison, Jonathan
Original language
English UK
Canonical DDC/MDS
823.92
Canonical LCC
PR6108.O55
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Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.
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You laugh and you cry
as Eleanor learns how to
start living her life.
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823.92Literature › English › English fiction › Modern Period › 2000-

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