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Title: The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta ISBN: 0-425-16314-8 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 (41 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Ever wish you played in a rock band and never grew up?
Comment: Now in his thirties, Dave Raymond still lives with his parents, visits Julie, his girlfriend of fifteen years, at her parents, and plays guitar for a wedding band called The Wishbones. One evening, after watching the aging lead singer of another group collapse and die on-stage, Dave proposes to Julie. The moment she accepts he realizes that his safe niche in life is coming to a close. Dave starts looking for a way out. Enter Gretchen, a grown up rock groupie. Gretchen is new, exciting, sensual, and spontaneous in a way that Julie no longer seems to be. And the wedding plans continue. As soon as the ring is chosen, Julie suggests that it is time for Dave to leave the band. On the night the invitations are addressed, Dave finds out that Julie is hiring a DJ to play at their wedding. Tom Perrotta paints characters with whom you can identify and puts them in realistic situations that enhance the underlying laugh-out-loud humor. I could not put the book down.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Truly Great Quick Read
Comment: There are some quick reads that enable you to overlook their flaws because you can pretty much fly through them. Then, sometimes, although this is rare, there is that fabulous quick read. The one that is funny, with great characters and an engaging story, that doesn't make you feel empty after you have finished it. The Wishbones falls in the latter category. I loved this book. It's about so many things I love to read about: music, relationships, New Jersey, fear of growing up, friends. Tom Perrotta has given us a highly enjoyable story about Dave, a thiryone year old guitar player in a wedding band (he's got a day job, but it's nothing much). Something happens to him one day which has him proposing to his longterm (15 years, on and off) girlfriend. Then panic sets in. Dave has never really grown up and the fear of marriage makes him do somethings he'll probably regret sooner or later (I have to admit, I was a little annoyed with him at times). But the pieces of his life fall together and by the end of the novel, he realizes what is really important to him. This is a satisfying and enjoyable read. Have fun.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Gem
Comment: I can't recall the last time I read a book that I enjoyed as much as The Wishbones. (Like many of my fellow Amazon denizens, I read quite a bit, so this is not an inconsiderable achievement.) Perrotta's characters are exceptionally well crafted, his dialog is pitch perfect, and his story-telling doesn't have an ounce of fat. Let me put it this way: Tom Perrotta is Nick Hornsby with chops. I'm not sure if The Wishbones is great literature or not (although it very well might be; Perrotta is reputed to teach creative writing at Harvard!), but it is exceptionally entertaining and well worth your time. My only complaint is that, as I writer, I occasionally found myself despairing as I worked through its pages, thinking, "I'll never be able to write this well." But that's my problem, not yours. The Wishbones is a terrific book and I promise you won't regret spending the money or taking the time to read it.
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Title: Joe College by Tom Perrotta ISBN: 031228327X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Little Children by Tom Perrotta ISBN: 0312315716 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Election: A Novel by Tom Perrotta ISBN: 0425167283 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies by Tom Perrotta ISBN: 042515954X Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Family History by DANI SHAPIRO ISBN: 0375415475 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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