Product Details:
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Berkley Trade (May 1, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425174344
ISBN-13: 978-0425174340
Product Dimensions:
8 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Editorial reviews More than a collection of short stories, but not quite a novel, takes the girl to an undefined region of space between these two forms these guys have all the fun epub. The girls in the region in question are Gretel Samuelson, her best friend Jill, her mother, Franny, and Franny's cousin Margot - four characters who weave in and out of each of the 15 related stories that the teen years chronicle rock Gretel these guys have all the fun epub. When his is a line is difficult to hack immediately obvious in the first story, "Dear Diary" in which Alice Hoffman leads the Samuelson family, as they are swallowed by the cracks that have broken off. "Long before the plane landed in Miami we heard our parents argue," says Gretel family vacation in Florida, "and the hotel room, she joined in her bedroom If you ask me, can work so hard in turn married .." It is the end of the marriage, the lasting effects, but that we later tales: Gretel, the brother of former brilliance, Jason, was a drug addict and her mother with cancer, and Gretel fight is in a destructive relationship with a drug dealer involved. All plot points rather depressing, to be sure, and yet luminous prose Hoffman holds combined with tart and funny perspective Gretel, the reader moves forward until the bitter end. In fact, Gretel and her family and friends so compelling, so engaging to give the reader wishes Hoffman Samuelson takes a novel of this series of stories selected. In reading about the origins of Jason, a student with a letter of acceptance from Harvard in the produce department at the supermarket and heroin shooting, for example, one can not help thinking that many of their motivations come from the stories and Gretel difficult relationship ( or lack thereof) with his father and stepmother new functions primarily as a plot device so that the reader wanting more. And yet, when we do assess the success of a book by the reluctance of the reader, then the local girls will be a success, Hoffman has created a world so attractive that one is willing to forget is slight imperfections. At the end of the story of the title, now an adult to discuss, as Gretel and Jill two teenage girls in the neighborhood, who committed suicide recently, Jill notes, "You should only waiting that's all that had to do it, They grew up .. and all was well. "The same could be said about reading the local girls -. Alix Wilber - This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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