Me Times Three: A Novel

by Alex Witchel

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During the 1980s, a disenchanted assistant editor at a women's magazine is devoted to her fiance, a Wall street moneyman who personifies all her yuppie lifestyle fantasies. However, her bubble bursts when she discovers he's secretly engaged to two other women. Crestfallen, the woman who hates her magazine job becomes devoted to it. Alex Witchel is a New York Times culture writer best known for her theatre industry and fashion columns. Me Times Three is her first fiction novel, soon to be a show more motion picture. show less

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It is the late '80s, and Sandy Berlin is living in NYC, works at a magazine, has a gay best friend Paul who she has the best time with, and is engaged to Bucky, her high school sweetheart, and after marriage will commence to live the lifestyle of the rich and WASP that she has always dreamed of. Then she is ambushed at a party by a strange woman and learns of something that completely changes her life. Flawed but loveable heroine with lots of well-written minor characters. Quick but good read.
A bit sturdier than your usual chick lit, I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of substance contained in 'Me Times Three'. In addition to the frothy "jilted by her fiance; now what?" plotline, the main character also has to deal with the failing health of her best friend, due to AIDS. It is that plotline which really makes this book something worth reading.
Was irresponsible today, and only read to finish a book I began last night. By its title and description I thought this was typical chick lit, but in the reading you find it surpasses the genre all together. For the sake of order I leave it classed on the shelf though. Sandy has been with the same boy since senior prom, and at 26 she thinks her life is going to follow her fairy tale dreams, but then she discovers her fiancee is engaged to two other women, and he's more than a bit of a putz.The beautiful story of her friendship with Paul, a college friend who's lifestyle of trading "boyfriends" or tricks as he called them, every night, and the avalanche of drugs through the years led to Paul's diagnosis of AIDs. It was haunting for me, show more especially near the end, where is my fashion, I bawled. show less
Sandra works at a fashion magazine and is engaged to her (rich) high school boyfriend. Her plans for suburban married bliss are scuppered when she finds out he has two other fiancées. Better written than many of this genre, in a sassy smart ,Manhatten style.
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Alex Witchel is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine.

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Dedication
For John, whom I miss
For Frank, whom I cherish
First words
Looking back, I wonder about that day of the party at the Met.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I could learn.
Blurbers
Didion, Joan; Parker, Sarah Jessica; Wasserstein, Wendy

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Romance
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3623 .I85 .M4Language and LiteratureAmerican literature
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