Sparkle Life - Hardcover

Lindstrom, Kara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590512324 ISBN 13: 9781590512326

Verlag: Other Pr Llc, 2006

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Book by Lindstrom Kara

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Kirkus Reviews
Lindstrom's great strength is her acerbic, yet strangely affecting understanding that the compromises people make with their ideals tell us more about them than the ideals themselves. The author moves sure-footedly between the stories of the women, but by the end, two of them emerge as the primary characters. In the case of these two especially, Lindstrom creates wonderfully rich personalities and quite distinct and distinctive patterns of speech and thought. A mix of lurid potboiler and classic bildungsroman, the story is occasionally too knowing for its own good, but its prose is fresh and its insights into the aging-hipster-turned-ambitious-careerwoman are both biting and poignant.

Publishers Weekly
Readers who like a "Sex and the City" milieu but don't need their stories tied up with a bow on top will enjoy meeting this crowd.

Library Journal
A wonderfully entertaining and tender first novel; recommended for all fiction collections.

San Diego Union Tribune, James Leigh
"Sparkle Life" is also a highly readable, entertaining, and -- surprise! -- emotionally involving novel. The characters do develop, just as creative writing professors used to recommend, and if the endings are mainly happy, they are not predictable. Success is redefined; young and old turn out to want love as well as sex and power -- a concession to prospective producers, perhaps, but Lindstrom makes it ring true.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Liv, Joy and Sara, women in their 30s, each with her own strong characteristics, enliven Kara Lindstrom's debut novel, "Sparkle Life." Lindstrom, a native of Chicago, gives us a well-crafted contemporary tale of glitz, ambition and sex, a story that develops into an exploration of the challenges of daily living.

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Geeta Sharma-Jensen
Like her prose and the title, [Kara Lindstrom's] novel sparkles - with glitz and wit, shot through with a tender sadness.

Kirkus Reviews

Lindstrom's great strength is her acerbic, yet strangely affecting understanding that the compromises people make with their ideals tell us more about them than the ideals themselves. The author moves sure-footedly between the stories of the women, but by the end, two of them emerge as the primary characters. In the case of these two especially, Lindstrom creates wonderfully rich personalities and quite distinct and distinctive patterns of speech and thought. A mix of lurid potboiler and classic bildungsroman, the story is occasionally too knowing for its own good, but its prose is fresh and its insights into the aging-hipster-turned-ambitious-careerwoman are both biting and poignant.

Publishers Weekly
Readers who like a Sex and the City milieu but don't need their stories tied up with a bow on top will enjoy meeting this crowd.

Library Journal
A wonderfully entertaining and tender first novel; recommended for all fiction collections.

San Diego Union Tribune, James Leigh
Sparkle Life is also a highly readable, entertaining, and -- surprise! -- emotionally involving novel. The characters do develop, just as creative writing professors used to recommend, and if the endings are mainly happy, they are not predictable. Success is redefined; young and old turn out to want love as well as sex and power -- a concession to prospective producers, perhaps, but Lindstrom makes it ring true.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Liv, Joy and Sara, women in their 30s, each with her own strong characteristics, enliven Kara Lindstrom's debut novel, Sparkle Life. Lindstrom, a native of Chicago, gives us a well-crafted contemporary tale of glitz, ambition and sex, a story that develops into an exploration of the challenges of daily living.

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Geeta Sharma-Jensen
Like her prose and the title, [Kara Lindstrom's] novel sparkles - with glitz and wit, shot through with a tender sadness.

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Enjoying a life of wealth, talent, and promiscuity, Liv basks in her devotion to her clothier father and psychiatrist uncle, while Joy obsessively plans out every aspect of her life, and Sara observes inexplicable patterns everywhere she looks. A first novel.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Other Pr Llc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1590512324
• ISBN 13: 9781590512326
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290