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  <title><![CDATA[The Lucky Ones]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;p&gt;A young pregnant mother wrestles with an utterly changed life; a new father searches for a sign of the man he used to be; a daughter yearns for a lost childhood; and a mother reaches out in bewilderment to a child she can't fully understand. A rare novel that illuminates &quot;the bustling concourses of life&quot; without sacrificing emotional depth and complexity, &lt;i&gt;The Lucky Ones&lt;/i&gt; confirms Rachel Cusk's place among our most incisive writers.&lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2003</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Lucky Ones</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Rachel Cusk]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 10 19:20:15 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 10 19:20:15 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was pure crap.  There was no plot line and it jumped from one character to another. <strong>!!!!Don't read this part of you want to read this part because it contains many spoliers!!!!</strong>  The first character was a pregnant woman who was in jail and it ends with her having the baby in a cop car by he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12207518">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 09 08:28:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 09 08:33:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A steely, truth-telling collection of linked short stories (it's absurd that the publisher tried to pass this off as a novel). Cusk's descriptions of domesticity are piercing and clean. She never stoops to sentiment as she observes the lives of fulltime mothers. Rather, her stories acknowledge the v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73964203">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Feb 15 17:29:25 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 15 17:31:34 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was like a book in the round.  The first characters you meet in the first chapter disappear and then you find them in the last.  It's a six degrees of seperation kind of book set in Suburban London.  I enjoyed it.]]></body>
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    <review id="53724324">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Short stories about reproduction/motherhood adn family dynamics. Sad but well written I did not finish it as I was not really in the mood for these stories. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jan 07 19:12:34 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 07 19:12:51 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This looks like a good book that will make you feel something in the end.]]></body>
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    <review id="5521536">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Sep 12 06:36:06 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[For me, this book is more like several short stories rather than a novel, but with each stories have similar theme and at least one link character to other stories.<br/><br/>My favorite chapter (or more approriately: short story) is: the way you do it. I could relate easily with the &quot;father&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5521536">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a boring book!]]></body>
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    <review id="11278907">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i enjoyed reading this book, which is a novel, although it often feels like a collection of short stories.  it's a light read and the story/ies mostly deal with women, families, family life and children, etc.  it was a neat read because it stimulated a lot of thought about &quot;traditional&quot; an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11278907">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17873198">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned of this book via Cookie magazine. It's an excellent and fascinating description of multiple mothering perspectives - influenced by age &amp; social class. I found the initial chapter to be very compelling, but the last chapter to be a bit weak. Regardless, like The Corrections, some of her pro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17873198">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2493533">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn’t get this. What I saw here was 5 loosely interconnected stories about some very unhappy people. I didn’t see the “luck” anywhere. I’m kind of sorry I read this, for it was rather depressing and I don’t think it said anything good about children at all. I’m glad it was short so ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2493533">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31410347">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[part of the problem was that my reading of this book was very choppy.  But basically, I didn't get it.  I still have no idea what the first chapter had to do with the rest of the book.  Or the second chapter.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book that I started reading a few years ago but had difficulty with it - just because it was so emotionally powerful and disturbing. I'm going to give it another try soon...]]></body>
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