false 1083252 <![CDATA[Open House]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180844249m/1083252.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180844249s/1083252.jpg Oprah Book Club® Selection, August 2000: The narrator of Elizabeth Berg's Open House calls divorce "a series of internal earthquakes ... one after the other." She ought to know. Samantha is abandoned by her husband in the opening pages of this three-handkerchief special, and the resultant tremors keep her off-balance for most of the novel. There are practical problems aplenty, of course, including a shortage of money and an 11-year-old son to raise. But Sam's sense of emotional bereavement is far worse, despite the fact that her husband had been giving her the conjugal cold shoulder for years:
I miss David so much, yes I do, I miss the presence of another person in my bed at night, even if he doesn't touch me; the reliability of someone else being there in the morning, even if they only shave and stare straight ahead into the mirror while you lean against the bathroom doorjamb with your cup of coffee, chatting hopefully.
The loneliness in her "as constant and as irrefutable" as circulating blood, Sam begins to rebuild her life. She finds herself a job and takes in a couple of boarders to help meet her mortgage payments. (One of them, a depressed student named Lavender Blue, informs her that "life was nothing but one major disappointment after the other"--the sort of homily that Sam is understandably reluctant to hear these days.) She also starts dating, with disastrous results. Yet this comically kvetching heroine does manage to find love in the ruins, and by the time Open House winds down, it's hard not to believe that she's much better off. Throughout, Berg alternates her snappy and sappy registers like a real pro. And the conclusion, which most readers will be able to spot a mile off, seems just right--the light at the end of the post-matrimonial tunnel. --Anita Urquhart ]]> 5190 23 1070015 2000 Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) total:4201|5:554|4:1420|3:1656|2:490|1:81| 4201 14479 5307 395 3529 3.62 27881 3918 3673742 178140 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4061 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 1 5 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 15:41:29 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 02:29:05 -0800 2009
What do I care about a dumpy, depressed, middle-aged divorcee who spends her evenings reading Oprah book club selections and chowing down chocolate bars?

On the up-side, it made me feel thin and accomplished. ]]> 24068515 1217002 227442 0375506039 9780375506031 7 <![CDATA[Open House]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172876626m/227442.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172876626s/227442.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227442.Open_House 3.15 46 Oprah Book Club® Selection, August 2000: The narrator of Elizabeth Berg's Open House calls divorce "a series of internal earthquakes ... one after the other." She ought to know. Samantha is abandoned by her husband in the opening pages of this three-handkerchief special, and the resultant tremors keep her off-balance for most of the novel. There are practical problems aplenty, of course, including a shortage of money and an 11-year-old son to raise. But Sam's sense of emotional bereavement is far worse, despite the fact that her husband had been giving her the conjugal cold shoulder for years:
I miss David so much, yes I do, I miss the presence of another person in my bed at night, even if he doesn't touch me; the reliability of someone else being there in the morning, even if they only shave and stare straight ahead into the mirror while you lean against the bathroom doorjamb with your cup of coffee, chatting hopefully.
The loneliness in her "as constant and as irrefutable" as circulating blood, Sam begins to rebuild her life. She finds herself a job and takes in a couple of boarders to help meet her mortgage payments. (One of them, a depressed student named Lavender Blue, informs her that "life was nothing but one major disappointment after the other"--the sort of homily that Sam is understandably reluctant to hear these days.) She also starts dating, with disastrous results. Yet this comically kvetching heroine does manage to find love in the ruins, and by the time Open House winds down, it's hard not to believe that she's much better off. Throughout, Berg alternates her snappy and sappy registers like a real pro. And the conclusion, which most readers will be able to spot a mile off, seems just right--the light at the end of the post-matrimonial tunnel. --Anita Urquhart ]]> 2000 3 1 false Sat Dec 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 09 10:47:38 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 07 07:15:52 -0800 2008
At first, I was pleasantly surprised when I picked this one up. Berg described feelings and characters in such detail that I was eager to read more of her work. I really felt for Sam, the main character, and I loved...more...]]> 24065557 8253 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 1 1 false Tue Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 10:12:08 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 08:53:00 -0700 2008
Although I hate to love, and love to hate on Oprah and her book club books, they usually are pretty decent. Oprah needs to fire who ever rea...more...]]> 48771336 1828369 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 0 0 false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 22:01:35 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 22:10:12 -0700 2009
Everything is there, in science. Even human emotions, I mean. It's as though they're represented by certain universal laws.

[Naked stars:] are stars with most of their gaseous atmospheres stripped away. And you know why they're revealed like that? Because of close en...more...]]> 77336679 2453991 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 4 0 false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 11:28:23 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 11:35:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 56905283 240801 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 2 0 false Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 18:03:16 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 18:09:16 -0700 2009 This follows a similar pattern (or I guess a Year of Pleasures follows a similar pattern to this) with a w...more...]]> 46633111 757195 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 3 0 true Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 08:57:27 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 12:12:39 -0800 2009
However, I did not buy this story ... for two reasons.
. So Sam's next true lo...more...]]> 47959488 2084345 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 3 0 false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 20:31:49 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 20:48:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 26993855 1239783 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 4 2 false Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 16:30:49 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 16:39:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 74297918 820575 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 3 0 false Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 12:51:10 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 10:19:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 74386665 2182361 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 4 0 false Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 08:41:28 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 09:01:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 55431467 2286434 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 2 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri May 08 19:07:11 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 19:45:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 66293644 2580984 1083250 1565114663 9781565114661 1 <![CDATA[Open House]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180844248m/1083250.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180844248s/1083250.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1083250.Open_House 3.20 5 Oprah Book Club® Selection, August 2000: The narrator of Elizabeth Berg's Open House calls divorce "a series of internal earthquakes ... one after the other." She ought to know. Samantha is abandoned by her husband in the opening pages of this three-handkerchief special, and the resultant tremors keep her off-balance for most of the novel. There are practical problems aplenty, of course, including a shortage of money and an 11-year-old son to raise. But Sam's sense of emotional bereavement is far worse, despite the fact that her husband had been giving her the conjugal cold shoulder for years:
I miss David so much, yes I do, I miss the presence of another person in my bed at night, even if he doesn't touch me; the reliability of someone else being there in the morning, even if they only shave and stare straight ahead into the mirror while you lean against the bathroom doorjamb with your cup of coffee, chatting hopefully.
The loneliness in her "as constant and as irrefutable" as circulating blood, Sam begins to rebuild her life. She finds herself a job and takes in a couple of boarders to help meet her mortgage payments. (One of them, a depressed student named Lavender Blue, informs her that "life was nothing but one major disappointment after the other"--the sort of homily that Sam is understandably reluctant to hear these days.) She also starts dating, with disastrous results. Yet this comically kvetching heroine does manage to find love in the ruins, and by the time Open House winds down, it's hard not to believe that she's much better off. Throughout, Berg alternates her snappy and sappy registers like a real pro. And the conclusion, which most readers will be able to spot a mile off, seems just right--the light at the end of the post-matrimonial tunnel. --Anita Urquhart ]]> 2000 3 0 false Fri May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Aug 05 08:57:42 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 08:58:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 49824577 2143983 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 4 0 false Sun Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Thu Mar 19 19:06:09 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 04:28:15 -0700 2009
So many characters in this novel, Sam, David, Veronica, Travis, King, Rita, Lydia, Thomas etc. This story was very well written and I'm in the process of searching for Berg's other books that I haven't yet...more...]]> 39382527 1710557 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 3 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Dec 05 12:11:52 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 12:12:11 -0800 2008
A story of growth, strength and humanity. Berg has a gift, it seems.


I'd read this a while back, but when I found this copy- I could no longer really remember the story- divorced woman finds self, is all I could com...more...]]> 27726251 584274 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 5 1 false Sat Jul 19 14:44:13 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 14:44:52 -0700 2008 48131714 85628 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 4 0 false Tue Mar 03 13:01:15 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 16:15:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 47035662 85483 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 1 0 false Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 06:03:45 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 06:07:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 31142090 1460187 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 2000 5 1 false Mon Aug 25 10:28:27 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 10:28:56 -0700 2008 52496893 1975174 5190 0345435168 9780345435163 381 <![CDATA[Open House: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190m/5190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165518190s/5190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5190.Open_House_A_Novel 3.45 4201 Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage. Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.


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