false <![CDATA[One True Thing: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172444611m/176839.jpg 176839 16 <I>One True Thing</I> is a film starring Meryl Streep as the cancer-stricken homemaker mother, Renee Zellweger as the daughter who quits her top-dog job to care for her, and William Hurt as the chilly professor who lets the women in the family do the heavy emotional lifting dying requires. But the real star of the project remains former <I>New York Times</I> everyday-life columnist Anna Quindlen, who quit her top-dog job to write novels (and who took time off from college to nurse her own dying mother).<p> Quindlen hit a nerve with <I>One True Thing</I>, which captures an experience seldom dealt with in popular culture. (One exception: the sensitive 1996 film with Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio of the play <I>Marvin's Room</I>.) Though the heroine of <I>One True Thing</I>, Ellen Gulden, is a golden girl with two brothers who'll lose her career the instant she steps off the fast track, society concurs with her dad, who says, "It seems to me another woman is what's wanted here."<p> The book is a mother-daughter tale that should please fans of, say, <I>The Joy Luck Club</I>. It's not flashy, but it has a deep feel for the way children often discover, just before it's too late, who their parents really are. "Our parents are never people to us," Ellen writes, "they're always character traits.... There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat." The mercy-killing subplot isn't gripping, but the palpable sense of deepening family intimacy certainly is. <I>--Tim Appelo</I> 1445239 1994 One True Thing: A Novel total:2716|5:549|4:1141|3:865|2:141|1:20| 2716 10206 3526 257 3 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 19:48:21 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 10 17:31:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Fri Jan 25 20:15:31 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 20:15:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 18:42:10 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 18:45:43 -0800 2008 4 1 false false Thu Dec 18 10:34:38 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 10:35:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 21 16:21:33 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 16:29:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Nov 03 18:34:15 -0700 2007 Fri Feb 08 16:14:35 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Mar 17 16:48:15 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 16:58:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Dec 31 09:37:16 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 09:39:26 -0800 2008 Wow, I cried a lot in this book!

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