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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. snozzberry | Oct 17, 2008 |  2   Fabulously trashy! m_loveman | Sep 24, 2008 | Set in Silicon Valley with IPO's, Drugs, Family issues, etc. I had read a review on this in the newspaper and it was engaging enough for me to finish it but somewhat formulaic. (  )sonam_soni | Aug 26, 2008 | Sarah cmsteachers | Jul 23, 2008 |  Sweet revenge tale of 40-something woman whose husband takes off with her best friend, without saying a word, on the day that his company goes public, netting him billions. The writing is better, the story more convincing and the cast of characters much more interesting, than in your average ditched-wife novel. A compelling, juicy read. (  )triscuit | Jun 24, 2008 | 1 0.046 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0385524013, Hardcover)A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer.When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for — until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, four hundred miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers’ older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her fledgling post-feminist magazine, Snatch. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home where her younger sister Lizzie, 14, is struggling with problems of her own. Formerly chubby, Lizzie has been enjoying her newfound popularity until some bathroom graffiti alerts her to the fact that she’s become the school slut. The three Miller women retreat behind the walls of their Georgian colonial to wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, mean girls, country club ladies, evangelical neighbors, their own demons, and each other, and in the process they become achingly sympathetic characters we can’t help but root for, even as the world they live in epitomizes everything wrong with the American Dream. Exhilarating, addictive, and superbly accomplished, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything crackles with energy and intelligence and marks the debut of a knowing and very funny novelist, wise beyond her years. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:08 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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The book alternates point of view among the three main characters, and I found myself most looking forward to the 20-something daughter's sections. I'm no longer 20-something (sigh) but I identified with her character most of all. She grew up in Quintessential Suburbia but developed into a feminist, liberal woman with aspirations of success in the publishing world.
Even though I was drawn to that one character, I loved all the main characters and could see myself in each of them.
This is one of those books that made me into Bad Mommy because I couldn't resist the temptation to sneak a passage here and there while "playing" with my 8-month-old daughter. (It's good for her to see me reading books, right?) (