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Title: The Hazards of Good Breeding: A Novel by Jessica Shattuck ISBN: 0-393-05132-3 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.84
Rating: 2
Summary: I didn't buy this book but paid (lots) in time spent reading
Comment: I had not read any reviews about this work, I admit choosing it as I was attracted by the title. For me this book failed as the author told me things about this world she created and did not show through narrative and character development for me to be able to come to my own conclusions. I felt like she was "teaching girls" in the very worst way. Giving the answers instead of providing the facts and clues to understand on your own. It was dog-dead boring and slow in parts, and I found the sheer number of typos unacceptable. If the author is to write more I hope her publisher treats her work with the respect any published work deserves. To adhere to my family's admonition, "if you can't say anything good, don't say anything at all" she made me curious and I spent quite a bit of time reading "manifold theory" and am inspired to register for a higher math class.
Rating: 4
Summary: A fine first novel
Comment: Everyone in this novel seems to be going in circles in their upper class suburban Boston world. Caroline Dunlap, who has just graduated from a proper college, has come home to the world she left and finds it essentially unchanged with everyone coming quietly and oh-so-properly unglued. Everyone is looking for his or her own key to happiness, and it is as their paths cross and overlap that the pathos, humor, and sensitive writing are revealed.
A good summer read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good breeding? very good reading...
Comment: Yes, I agree with one reviewer here: I cannot stand typos in books from reputable publishing houses. But this is nonetheless a very good read, but not (I think) in Cheever class as some have suggested... Jack is a sour and dour central character, unattractive and monochromatic but well drawn. The ending is particularly good and the prediction regarding Eliot's future sounds pretty accurate to me. I am so happy to find these talented American debutant novelists, first the wonderful Nancy Clark, now Jessica Shattuck... I hope they all keep writing as I am an impatient reader.
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Title: The Hills at Home by Nancy Clark ISBN: 037542203X Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 18 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Wife: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer ISBN: 0684869403 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Mrs. Kimble : A Novel by Jennifer Haigh ISBN: 0060509392 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Quality of Life Report by Meghan Daum ISBN: 0670032131 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 08 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy ISBN: 0743244354 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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