<![CDATA[Outtakes from a Marriage: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[Outtakes from a Marriage: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255975554m/2231560.jpg 2231560 2 Julia and Joe Ferraro are living the good life in Manhattan now that Joe’s finally made it; he’s the star of a hit TV show and has just been nominated for a Golden Globe award. After many lean years, they’ve got a grand Upper West Side apartment and an Amagansett beach house, and their two kids go to elite private schools. Even better, Julia and Joe are still madly in love. Or so Julia thinks until the fateful evening when she accidentally hears a voice mail on Joe’s phone— a message left by a sultry-sounding woman who clearly isn’t just a friend. Suddenly Julia is in a tailspin, compulsively checking Joe’s messages, stalking him in cyberspace, and showing up unannounced on his sets, wondering all along if she should confront him. Julia’s search forces her to consider the possibility that in the long process of helping Joe become something, she has become a bit of a “nothing,” as her daughter once described her to her class on career day. A big husband-stalking nothing. When Julia and Joe first met, she was an edgy East Village girl who wrote music reviews for the Village Voice and threw famed parties in a gritty downtown loft with her friends. Joe was a shy, awkward drama student who followed her around like a lovesick spaniel. After he won her heart, Julia helped Joe evolve into a roguishly handsome charmer who became increasingly obsessed with his looks and his career. Julia, meanwhile, settled into doting motherhood and a new life of comfy clothes and parenting associations. Now, faced with the looming awards show and the possibility of a destroyed marriage, Julia embarks on an accelerated self-improvement routine of Botox, hair extensions, and erotically charged shrink sessions while dodging the sancti-mommies who lie in wait for her at her son’s preschool each day. A untique take on the perennially popular issue of women trying not to lose themselves in matrimony and motherhood, Outtakes from a Marriage is expertly and humorously set against the Manhattan preschool mafia, the Hollywood machine, and the ticking clock of a waiting red carpet. 2237370 3 6 2008 Outtakes from a Marriage: A Novel total:206|5:17|4:63|3:88|2:27|1:11| 206 666 366 72 3 0 false false Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 07:39:38 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 16:41:55 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 10:23:33 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 10:29:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sun Jun 08 15:47:01 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 15:48:02 -0700 2008 3 2 false false Sat Aug 09 08:28:28 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 09 08:30:38 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sun Nov 23 23:06:55 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 23:06:55 -0800 2008
Julia is married to tv star Joe. It’s the eve of the Golden Globes and Julia accidentally dials Joe’s voice mail and hears a message from another woman. This propels her to become a husband-stalking, botox-inj...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Dec 03 10:17:33 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 12:50:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 18:41:37 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 12:48:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 10:48:11 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 10:53:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 15:15:59 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 19 14:47:07 -0700 2008
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If you are looking for an easy piece of escapism, this book is for you. Don't have high expe...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 09:10:30 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 09:14:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Dec 02 19:45:36 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 19:46:48 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 20:38:52 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 16:09:42 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 17:22:15 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 08:43:06 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2231560