Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
by:
Lorrie Moore (author)
Realizing during a trip to Paris that she no longer loves her husband, Berie Carr remembers her childhood in upstate New York, where she shared a deep friendship with a captivating older girl named Sils. Reprint. NYT.
Realizing during a trip to Paris that she no longer loves her husband, Berie Carr remembers her childhood in upstate New York, where she shared a deep friendship with a captivating older girl named Sils. Reprint. NYT.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781400033829 (1400033829)
Publish date: April 13th 2004
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 147
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
Womens
For my full review, please visit Casual Debris.Moore's second novel, currently bookended by Anagrams and A Gate at the Stairs, is a short work that reads like a memoir, a narrator's personal guide through a specific time in her life. The narrator is on vacation in Paris in the midst of a seemingly f...
Beautifully written, reminiscent of She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb. A good book that just wasn't for me.
I'm not sure I fully appreciated the power of the prose toward the end, but I think I'll read it again. Not as packed with witticisms as the other books I've read, but the power of the story is stronger.
A slim novel but one of the best. The slender ones usually are. Or at least more likely to be than the fat ones.A disillusioned woman, sort of stumbling through but forward in life, looks back on her coming of age and her relationship with her best friend. Captures the persona of a young teenager —f...
This is a lovely book, well worth reading.
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