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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. November 2007: http://www.3rsblog.com/2007/11/book-t... ( )Just like with Prep, I couldn't put this down. Sittenfeld's characters are so real. Hannah's character traits either remind me of someone I know or I possess them myself. I'm reminded of my own socially awkward youth/young adulthood when I read these books (thank goodness it wasn't quite this bad!). I enjoyed this book - I thought it was really well written - and like Prep - the main character rings really true with me . There are moments where the situations she finds her self in are almost unbearably uncomfortable... but the author does a really good job of making it all make sense in the context of her personality and prior experiences. I wish I could say that I related less to her than I do - but it's always nice to read about someone who is recognizable. Not bad- a very light holiday book. Sometimes I felt Hannah was dragging herself down. Ending was good. When Hannah is young her parents marriage crumbles at the same time that Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland hit the rocks. For the next ten years she spends her time trying to make sense of what she wants: from her father, her boyfriends, her female relatives and her life. But can she have it when she finally figures it out? Lauded by Alice Munro as "courageous" and "refreshing". Well written and engaging (Hannah will stay with you for a while) though the ending seemed a little like a cheat - just a few pages to wind it all up. 0.066 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0739323849, Audio CD)“Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn’t exist to accommodate you, which, in Hannah’s observation, is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into adulthood.”–from The Man of My DreamsIn her acclaimed debut novel, Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld created a touchstone with her pitch-perfect portrayal of adolescence. Her prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman’s fantasies of family and love with the challenges and realities of adult life. Hannah Gavener is fourteen in the summer of 1991. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah’s own life, her parents’ marriage is crumbling. And somewhere in between these two extremes–just maybe–lie the answers to love’s most bewildering questions. But over the next decade and a half, as she moves from Philadelphia to Boston to Albuquerque, Hannah finds that the questions become more rather than less complicated: At what point can you no longer blame your adult failures on your messed-up childhood? Is settling for someone who’s not your soul mate an act of maturity or an admission of defeat? And if you move to another state for a guy who might not love you back, are you being plucky–or just pathetic? None of the relationships in Hannah’s life are without complications. There’s her father, whose stubbornness Hannah realizes she’s unfortunately inherited; her gorgeous cousin, Fig, whose misbehavior alternately intrigues and irritates Hannah; Henry, whom Hannah first falls for in college, while he’s dating Fig; and the boyfriends who love her more or less than she deserves, who adore her or break her heart. By the time she’s in her late twenties, Hannah has finally figured out what she wants most–but she doesn’t yet know whether she’ll find the courage to go after it. Full of honesty and humor, The Man of My Dreams is an unnervingly insightful and beautifully written examination of the outside forces and personal choices that make us who we are. From the Hardcover edition. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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