Dating Big Bird
by Laura Zigman
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Ellen Franck isn't in love with Big Bird. After all, he's a big yellow Sesame Street character -- and she's an intelligent single woman with a fabulous job. On the other hand, Big Bird is looking like a better candidate for fatherhood every day: he's tall, affectionate, and steadily employed. And right now, for Ellen, thirty-five years old and dying to have a baby, almost any father will do.In her hilarious and heartbreaking new novel, Laura Zigman, bestselling author of Animal Husbandry, show more explores what happens when the life we've chosen isn't that life we expected it to be. And at this point Ellen Franck is rethinking all her choices.
Mired in a relationship with a man who is better at brooding than breeding, sister to a woman who can't seem to stop having babies, and working under a boss who is about to have the baby shower of the decade, Ellen knows the path to motherhood is clear. All she has to do is leave her relationship, horrify her family, find an anonymous father, and become independently wealthy.
Piece of cake.
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Ok, I admit it. The title of the book kept me from picking it up for months. And the opening line "It's not that I found Big Bird particularly attractive, it's just that I thought he would make a good parent." struck me as weird indeed. But once I pushed on, it was a pretty good book. Ellen and Amy are going to fight to the last viable egg to have a child, and how they move towards their deadline makes pretty good reading.
Most of the toddler and parenting descriptions were spot on and hilarious, but the rest was significantly weaker, especially the interactions between Ellen and her impoholic boyfriend.
Light, fast, fun read with no major trauma. A nice respite from heavier-duty reading. Decent writing and an amusing story, albeit with a predictable ending.
It was my first Zigman. I picked it up because of the cover and after reading the first sentence, I was hooked.
30-something with ticking biological clock
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I don't even remember this book.
Las aventuras de una futura mamá. Ellen está en la treintena, tiene un trabajo interesante y glamouroso como relaciones públicas de una firma de ropa de diseño, pero no es feliz. No dudaría en tirar por la borda su prometedora carrera profesional y su vida de mujer independiente por ver cumplidas sus ansias de maternidad. Y lo que es peor, todas sus amigas y su hermana se quedan embarazadas a la vez: hasta su insoportable jefa va a tener otro bebé. Claro que existe un hombre, un atractivo escritor de 45 años, del que Ellen está muy enamorada, pero Malcom no está por la labor de volver a cambiar pañales después de la inesperada muerte de su hijo y el subsiguiente divorcio, que aún no ha superado. Así que, sin ningún padre show more en el horizonte, Ellen se siente cada vez más apremiada por su particular visión del rejoj biológico. Entonces, ella y su amiga Amy, que está en su misma situación, se dan un plazo límite para tomar una decisión desesperada. show less
Dec 26, 2010Spanish
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Laura Zigman grew up in Newtonville, Massachusetts, and graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Before writing ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, she was a publicist at Turtle Bay Books and Knopf. She currently lives in Washington, DC. (Publisher Provided) Author Laura Zigman grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. She graduated from the University of show more Massachusetts at Amherst and the Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course. She worked in the New York publishing industry for ten years as a publicist for Times Books, Vintage Books, Turtle Bay Books, Atlantic Monthly Press, and Alfred A. Knopf. She moved to Washington, D. C. where she worked as a project manager for The Smithsonian Associates and a consultant for Share Our Strength, an anti-poverty non-profit group. Her first novel, Animal Husbandry, was published in 1998 and in 2001 the book was turned into a film entitled Someone Like You starring Ashley Judd and Hugh Jackman. She has also written Dating Big Bird (2000), Her (2002), and Piece of Work (2006). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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