The Guy Not Taken
In her inimitable style, Jennifer Weiner takes the subject of losing love and suffuses it all with her trademark emotional acuity and spot-on wit. This collection of stories about loneliness and loss sees Weiner at the top of her game. In Guy Not Taken, a young married woman happens upon her ex...
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In her inimitable style, Jennifer Weiner takes the subject of losing love and suffuses it all with her trademark emotional acuity and spot-on wit. This collection of stories about loneliness and loss sees Weiner at the top of her game. In Guy Not Taken, a young married woman happens upon her ex boyfriend's wedding registry and wonders what life would have been like if she'd ended up with him after all - only to wake up and find out her dream, for better and worst, has come true. In Tour of Duty, a young man visits an ivy league college with his mother who does not know how to tell him that his father has left and is moving out during their weekend away. And in Kidnapping Nana two sisters travel to a beach resort and kidnap an older woman so they have a place to stay while they're there - and find an unexpected bond with the older woman in the process.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780743564212 (0743564219)
Publish date: September 5th 2006
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Minutes: 5
Edition language: English
The stories ended kind of abruptly and without getting much resolved.
Nice collection of short stories - with the common theme marriage and / or divorce :) There's an explanation about this at the end of the book.I liked the very first story the most - very nice, and a little longer than the others as well.
I have tried this book twice now, and nothing about it keeps me interested in reading more. I normally really like Jennifer Weiner's books - but this one just wasn't cutting it. I finally give up.
Good, quick read. As always Jennifer Weiner pulls out all emotions - readers will laugh, cry, get angry, etc. While really getting to know the characters. Even in her short stories, Weiner has a way of writing that makes you feel, know, and understand the characters of her stories and what they're g...