Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 21/07/2011
ISBN: 9780552776837
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 127mm
Weight: 241g
RRP: £9.99
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of RODHAM, AMERICAN WIFE, YOU THINK IT, I'LL SAY IT and HELP YOURSELF
'A rigorous and wily stylist. She packs her pages with clever observations without appearing to be trying' NEW YORK TIMES
'Grave, good-humoured, deeply engaging' GUARDIAN
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Hannah is a confused fourteen-year-old. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's own life, her parents' marriage is crumbling.
Over the next decade and a half, love throws her some complicated questions. At what point can you no longer blame your adult failures on your messed up childhood? Is settling for someone who's not your soulmate an act of maturity or an admission of defeat? And if you move to another state for a guy who might not love you back, are you being plucky - or just pathetic?
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Readers love THE MAN OF MY DREAMS:
*****'I love everything Curtis Sittenfeld writes and this was no exception. Excellent'
*****'Very realistic portrayal of an emotionally abusive atmosphere. Insightful, thoughtful'
*****'Curtis Sittenfeld is a magnificent writer. Fantastic'
Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 21/07/2011
ISBN: 9780552776837
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 127mm
Weight: 241g
RRP: £9.99
Sittenfeld is a clever and refreshing writer... Likeable and compelling... Witty and astute... The result is impressive but most of all enjoyable
Good-humoured, deeply engaging... Brilliant... Gratifying and elucidating
Delightful... Entertaining and thought-provoking... Sittenfeld's cut-glass prose and razor-sharp observations take her work to another level
Funny and painfully true... Closing it for the last time, you feel like you're losing a new best friend
Razor-sharp... Sittenfeld's prose, which has that elusive ability to seduce you without you ever noticing The writing, is a joy to read, and her characters a joy to spend time with
Charming... this kind of novel usually gets the chick-lit tag, but with Sittenfeld there's always an edge, always a threat of something bad just around the corner