Girls in White Dresses
Isabella, Mary, and Lauren feel like everyone they know is getting married. On Sunday after Sunday, at bridal shower after bridal shower, they coo over toasters, collect ribbons and wrapping paper, eat minuscule sandwiches and cakes. They wear pastel dresses and drink champagne by the case, but...
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Isabella, Mary, and Lauren feel like everyone they know is getting married. On Sunday after Sunday, at bridal shower after bridal shower, they coo over toasters, collect ribbons and wrapping paper, eat minuscule sandwiches and cakes. They wear pastel dresses and drink champagne by the case, but amid the celebration these women have their own lives to contend with: Isabella is working a dead-end job, Mary is dating a nice guy with an awful mother, and Lauren is waitressing at a midtown bar and wondering why she's attracted to the sleazy bartender. With a wry sense of humor, Jennifer Close brings us through those thrilling, bewildering years of early adulthood as she pulls us inside the circle of these friends, perfectly capturing the wild frustrations and soaring joys of modern life.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307743695 (0307743691)
ASIN: 307743691
Publish date: May 1st 2012
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Here is my full review:http://samanthatule.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/book-review-girls-in-white-dresses/
As far as chick lit goes, Girls in White Dresses was just not particularly memorable. As someone who reads frequently I saw the same trivial themes of complacency and boredom and fear of being alone here as I do in many other novels. There were bits of clever humor but otherwise this book was far fr...
Alright. I just started this book and I'm only on the third story, but already I have a few thoughts that keep growing stronger:1) I hope to never know girls like this;2) I don't have high hopes that these characters are ever going to actually grow up or do anything and I think I am going to be quit...
This is kind of like a Sex and the City for the recently graduated set: struggling with the idea that all of your girlfriends from college are getting married and having kids and embarking on their dream careers while you are still single and fetching muffins for people. Unlike the obnoxious, trite ...
I really enjoyed this. It's told in quite a punctuated style, not really delving into the characters, but revealing what they are like through anecdotes and moments in their lives. I can see how many wouldn't like it as it doesn't really get to the heart of anything, but I liked the way we saw the f...
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