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Laddar... Anything for Jane: A Novelav Cheryl Mendelson
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I thoroughly enjoyed this---but was feeling rather stupid when I realized that I read the third book in the trilogy first!!! I picked up one of the earlier books but found that I just couldn't wade through everything to get to the ending I already knew, even though I really like the writing style. ( ) This is the third installment of the Morningside Heights trilogy, an entertaining series about the lives and loves of overeducated, artsy-fartsy and excruciatingly analytical residents of upper Manhattan. These are old-fashioned books with an omniscient narrator and a keen attention to social mores – a blend of Jane Austen and Woody Allen, if you will. All the books feature the same characters; this one is about the overindulged daughter of a pair of musicians and her involvement with the son of their cleaning lady. The plot gets a little outlandish toward the end, but it’s still a good read. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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This provocative, funny, perceptive novel tells the story of the trials of over-conscientious parenthood, as the devoted Braithwaites watch their bright, gifted eighteen-year-old take her disturbing initial steps toward independence, integrity–and failure. The action is set in Morningside Heights, the Manhattan neighborhood surrounding Columbia University where the Braithwaites live in a community in which adults’ aspirations are firmly focused on the achievements of their children. Talented, troubled, and self-centered, Jane Braithwaite makes her well-meaning upper-middle-class family miserable, enmeshing them in the complicated lives of a homeless family, a poor teenager with no family, and a would-be family foundering on childlessness. When catastrophe finally threatens, all their dilemmas are resolved by the same stunning and unexpected means. All the while, the Braithwaites involve old and new friends in their struggles–a lovesick clergyman, a lonely doctor and his baby-obsessed wife, a libertarian billionaire, a money-loving philosopher, and a hard-bitten but sexy poverty activist. Their social and political clashes provide entertainment both comic and serious. Anything for Jane is a fast-paced, beautifully crafted, moving tale of parent-child discord, class conflict, and young love. Erudite and playful, it offers readers a feast of rich satisfactions. From the Hardcover edition. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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