Girl Talk - Softcover

Baggott, Julianna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743400836 ISBN 13: 9780743400831

Verlag: Atria, 2002

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Críticas:

"For Baggott, cosmic irony is always in the details, the absurd gap between self-knowledge and behavioral excess. Baggott's brand of witty psychological observation is dark and corrosive...she has a knack for finding the oxymoronic in any situation."--The New York Times Book Review

" A smart, quirky chronicle of mother-daughter bonding and binding."--Glamour

"What really makes this book a good read is the way Baggott allows her readers to get into her characters' feelings....She kindly allows one to care about how each character reacts to one another."--USA Today

"And it is Girl Talk--a breathless novel that manages to be both funny and bleak, poignant and bitchy--that will make Baggott famous."--Poets & Writers Magazine

"Baggott's deft movement of her material is often lyrical and poignant."--Kirkus Reviews

Reseña del editor:

Lissy Jablonski was fifteen during the summer of 1985. That was the summer her father, a soft-spoken gynecologist, up and left her mother for a redheaded bank teller. The same summer Lissy and her mother disappeared from their quiet New Hampshire lives to have an adventure of their own amid a cast of unlikely characters, including a Valium-addicted ex-debutante and a suspected mobster. The summer the reliably comforting "girl talks" with her mother began to reveal startling secrets. Now an almost-thirty-year-old advertising executive in Manhattan, faced with her father's imminent death and newly pregnant by her married ex-lover, an unmoored Lissy finds herself looking back across the years. Contending with her affections for an old flame and his doomed marriage to a Korean stripper named Kitty Hawk, as well as the tangible legacies of that unmentionable summer with her mother, she realizes that she has become more like her mother than she ever could have imagined.

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• Verlag: Atria
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0743400836
• ISBN 13: 9780743400831
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272