Outer Banks
by Anne Rivers Siddons
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Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies...sensitive, sensible, self-contained Cecie...Ginger, the heiress, sexy, vibrant, richer than sin...and poor, hopeless, brilliant Fig-they came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the '60s. Four young women bound by rare, blinding, early friendship-they spend two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weatherbeaten houses perch defiantly on the edge of show more a storm-tossed sea. Now thirty years later, they are coming back. They are coming back to recapture the exquisite magic of those early years...to experience again the love, the enthusiasm, the passion, pain, and cruel-betrayal that shaped the four young girls into women and set them all adrift on the...Outer Banks. show lessTags
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This book was so predictable and almost boring in parts. I hate to admit to dear friends that I just didn't like it at all. Many people I know love this author and look forward to her latest book. I had somehow missed reading anything by her and now I know that I won't read anything else.
Her characters, particularly Fig, Kate and Paul are stereotypes and seemed way too sure of themselves when they were in college. I never knew anyone who was so positive they knew the answers at that age. It's almost as if the author put her mature adult perceptions into her young characters and it just didn't work for me.
Her characters, particularly Fig, Kate and Paul are stereotypes and seemed way too sure of themselves when they were in college. I never knew anyone who was so positive they knew the answers at that age. It's almost as if the author put her mature adult perceptions into her young characters and it just didn't work for me.
This book took awhile to really get going but the last quarter of the book was excellent.
4 friends from college who have nothing in common lose track of each other and reunite 30 years later an analyze what went wrong and how it all fell apart.
Definitely chick lit, and a bit dated, it starts in the 60’s and ends in the early 1990’s. Still it was a good story.
4 friends from college who have nothing in common lose track of each other and reunite 30 years later an analyze what went wrong and how it all fell apart.
Definitely chick lit, and a bit dated, it starts in the 60’s and ends in the early 1990’s. Still it was a good story.
I wanted to read this book back when it first came out and purchased the book in paperback at some point, intending to read it. I got rid of the unread paperback in a move, but when a Kindle deal came up years ago, I purchased it. It sat unread on my Kindle for years until I made a trip to the Outer Banks this week. I expected most of the book to be set on the Outer Banks, but little of it was. The story focuses on four sorority sisters. One girl is quite creepy; another stole the narrator's boyfriend and married him. The narrator suspects cancer returned. She prefers to deny it as the "pacmen" eat her. That references dates the novel's relevance for today's readers. When the one owning an Outer Banks home invites her, she does not want show more to go. However, her husband talks her into going. By this point, it is well past the 50% mark of the novel. I did not like the turns the novel took from this point forward. Determination to finally finish the novel kept me reading although I wanted to abandon it before the narrator finally arrived in the Outer Banks from New York. This was not the "happy beach read" I expected. show less
Elegant Kate, walking a tightrope over an abyss of lies; Cecie, self-contained, sensitive and sensible; Ginger, the sexy, vibrant, richer-than-sin heiress and poor, hopeless, brilliant Georgina, nicknamed Fig - came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the 1960s. Four women bound by rare, blinding and early friendship. They spend two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolina, the isolated strip of barrier islands where grand old weather beaten houses perch defiantly on the edge of rugged cliffs overlooking a storm tossed sea. Now, thirty years later, they are coming back - back to recapture the magical memories of those early years, to experience again the love, the enthusiasm, the passion, pain and cruel show more betrayal that shaped these four young girls into vibrant young women and set them off on the courses of their lives.
I really enjoyed this book. I think that Anne Rivers Siddons is perhaps one of my favorite authors and I give this book an A+! A definite 5 and a half actually! :) show less
I really enjoyed this book. I think that Anne Rivers Siddons is perhaps one of my favorite authors and I give this book an A+! A definite 5 and a half actually! :) show less
Great lead in, back story, going back and forth in the novel and then it made no sense and took a turn A saga that starts in the 60's to "today", about sorority sisters and their future lives.
I just really like the characters in this one. But I'm also a sucker for a good college story.
Sorority sisters return to the Outer Banks to rekindle friendships after 30 years. Can it happen?????
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Novelist Anne Rivers Siddons was born in Fairburn, Georgia in 1936. She studied at Auburn University in Alabama and Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. Siddons was an editor and columnist for the Auburn Plainsman, senior editor for Atlanta magazine and worked in advertising. Her treatment of the South in her novels often earns comparisons to show more Margaret Mitchell. One of her books, Peachtree Road, won her Georgia author of the year honors (1988). Her novels include: Sweetwater Creek, Off Season and Burnt Mountain. In 2014 her title, The Girls of August, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1991
- People/Characters
- Kate Lee (Effie); Ginger Fowler; Cecie Hart; Alan Abrams; Georgina Newton Stewart (Fig); Paul Sibley (show all 7); Poolie Prout
- Important places
- Nags Head, North Carolina, USA; New York, USA; New York, New York, USA; North Carolina, USA; Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA; USA
- Epigraph
- Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
<... (show all)br>I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
-The Long Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot - Dedication
- To the Duck Seven
And most especially to Gee Gee - First words
- On the Outer Banks of North Carolina there is a legend about the ships that have come to grief in the great autumn storms on those hungry shoals. Over the centuries there have been many: the Banks have more than earned their ... (show all)reputation as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Most of the graves are in Diamond Shoals, just off the point of Cape Hatteras, but then entire hundred-off-mile sweep of coast has devoured its measure of wood and flesh. Myths and spectres and apparitions lie as think as sea fog over the Banks, but the one I have always remembered is the one Giner Fowler told us all... Cecie, Fig, Paul Sibley, and me...the September of my last year in college, when we were visiting her between quarters. -Chapter One
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.54
- Canonical LCC
- PS3569.I28 O87
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