The dinner party (from the journal of a lady of today)

by Gretchen Damrosch Finletter
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The dinner party
 
by
Gretchen Damrosch Finletter
book data
1 rating, 3.00 average rating, 1 review (more data...)
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published
1981 by Atheneum

binding
Paperback, 236 pages

isbn
0689706111   (isbn13: 9780689706110)






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Mary
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07/09/08

The book was written in the 1950s, and clearly Helen Fielding was reading and taking notes. Our Lady of Today and Bridget Jones are not entirely dissimilar, though Our Lady is married, wealthy, and has three beautiful daughters.

This is all, she realizes, exceptionally boring and unfulfilling, especially when your kids don't really need you and your husband thinks you're sort of an endearing fool and you spend all your days planning dinner parties, having your hair set, and writing witty obs...more
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