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Girls in White Dresses - Jennifer Close
Girls in White Dresses
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Brimming with characters you feel you've known forever, Girls in White Dresses announces a strikingly original new voice, chronicling the struggles and unexpected joys of modern life.Isabella, Mary and Lauren's friend Kristi is engaged and they are all bridesmaids. Despite being happy for their... show more
Brimming with characters you feel you've known forever, Girls in White Dresses announces a strikingly original new voice, chronicling the struggles and unexpected joys of modern life.Isabella, Mary and Lauren's friend Kristi is engaged and they are all bridesmaids. Despite being happy for their friend, by the sixth shower they are really sick of celebrating her. Saturday after Saturday they coo over toaster ovens and deep fat fryers. They collect wrapping paper and ribbons, tying them to paper plates. But beneath the toasting and clapping, we see these women struggling amid the celebration. Isabella dreams of quitting her job at a mailing list company, where she's both extremely successful and wildly unhappy. Mary falls deeply in love, realizing too late that her new mother-in-law is really her husband's favorite. And Lauren, single and adrift, finds herself drawn to a man she's pretty sure she hates.Wry, hilarious, and utterly recognizable, Girls in White Dresses follows these women as they maneuver their way through blind dates and ski vacations, boozy lunches and family holidays, through relationships lost to politics and others found in a pet store.From the Hardcover edition.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780385676441 (0385676441)
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
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I am Sam Tule
I am Sam Tule rated it
Here is my full review:http://samanthatule.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/book-review-girls-in-white-dresses/
LEJ418
LEJ418 rated it
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...
EricaO
EricaO rated it
2.0 Girls in White Dresses
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...
ellaminnowpea
ellaminnowpea rated it
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 ...
Amanda's Bookshelf
Amanda's Bookshelf rated it
4.0 Girls in White Dresses (Vintage Contemporaries)
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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