<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<GoodreadsResponse>
	<Request>
		<authentication>false</authentication>
		    <method><![CDATA[]]></method>
	</Request>
	
<book>
  <id>570299</id>
  <title><![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]></title>
  <isbn><![CDATA[0385333293]]></isbn>
  <isbn13><![CDATA[9780385333290]]></isbn13>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175885372m/570299.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175885372s/570299.jpg</small_image_url>
  <description><![CDATA[This tale of a southern writer and the New York editor who helps shape the ending of his novel and the beginning of his future was called by &quot;Newsweek&quot; &quot;a wise, sad, witty novel about men and women, God, hope, love, illusion, and fiction itself&quot;.]]></description>
  <work>
  <best_book_id type="integer">175168</best_book_id>
  <books_count type="integer">4</books_count>
  <desc_user_id type="integer" nil="true"></desc_user_id>
  <id type="integer">169219</id>
  <media_type nil="true"></media_type>
  <original_language_id type="integer" nil="true"></original_language_id>
  <original_publication_day type="integer" nil="true"></original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer" nil="true"></original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1982</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>A Bigamist's Daughter</original_title>
  <rating_dist>total:93|5:8|4:14|3:43|2:15|1:13|</rating_dist>
  <ratings_count type="integer">93</ratings_count>
  <ratings_sum type="integer">268</ratings_sum>
  <reviews_count type="integer">140</reviews_count>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">16</text_reviews_count>
</work>

  <average_rating><![CDATA[2.88]]></average_rating>
  <ratings_count><![CDATA[16]]></ratings_count>
  <text_reviews_count><![CDATA[1]]></text_reviews_count>
  
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/570299.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/570299.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter]]></link>
  <authors>
    <author>
    <id>7505</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Alice McDermott]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208206092p5/7505.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208206092p2/7505.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7505.Alice_McDermott]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.29</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>3128</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>505</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>
    <reviews start="1" end="20" total="140">
      <review>
  <id>56916194</id>
    <user>
    <id>1402123</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Laurel-Rain]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fresno, CA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1402123-laurel-rain]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1218117746p3/1402123.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1218117746p2/1402123.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">570299</id>
  <isbn>0385333293</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780385333290</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175885372m/570299.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175885372s/570299.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/570299.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>3.12</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>16</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[This tale of a southern writer and the New York editor who helps shape the ending of his novel and the beginning of his future was called by &quot;Newsweek&quot; &quot;a wise, sad, witty novel about men and women, God, hope, love, illusion, and fiction itself&quot;.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu May 21 19:50:15 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 24 08:09:59 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[In a novel that dissects, deconstructs and recreates the fabric of life, love and literature, the author spotlights the world of publishing; the mythology of love, the elusiveness of the love object – all as the centerpiece of this work – formulate the basis for this story.<br/><br/>We begin w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56916194">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56916194]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56916194]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>24144918</id>
    <user>
    <id>162207</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Catherine]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/162207-catherine]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-111x148.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.83</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>75</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 10 09:03:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 10 09:17:42 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[A well-done novel--particularly impressive that it was McDermott's first. I'm not very familiar with her work. I read That Night several years ago after watching its film adaptation on TV (back when C. Thomas Howell still had a career), but it didn't inspire me to seek out her other books. And then ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24144918">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24144918]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24144918]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>19015879</id>
    <user>
    <id>838801</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Amanda]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brooklyn, NY]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/838801-amanda]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201533277p3/838801.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201533277p2/838801.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>true</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="fiction" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 30 14:14:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 01 04:53:17 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[The protagonist of this book, Elizabeth Connelly, works for a Vanity Press in New York where she charms the money away from people who have committed their hearts to paper in the hopes of being published authors.  She manipulates them into signing contracts by playing the part of the glamorous New Y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19015879">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19015879]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19015879]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>38666991</id>
    <user>
    <id>1105819</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Rachel]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Salt Lake City, UT]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1105819-rachel]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1213657537p3/1105819.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1213657537p2/1105819.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="mfa-school-faculty" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 25 19:44:11 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 25 19:49:00 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This book is a striking look at the choices we all must make when deciding day to day who we are. It explores the nature of love and what we really want from each other. It offers a unique and significant perspective on the way in which our pasts influence us. It dispels myths about the essential na...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38666991">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38666991]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38666991]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>60217867</id>
    <user>
    <id>912765</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Suzie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Parsippany, NJ]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/912765-suzie]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-111x148.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 18 15:25:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 18 15:27:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[YUCK!  Why oh why do I keep reading a book that I don't like.  I read this book during my lunch hour at work &amp; felt like I was crawling out of my skin.  I couldn't wait to finish it.  Next time I don't like a book, I hope someone pulls it out of my hands before I waste my time.]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60217867]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60217867]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>80151409</id>
    <user>
    <id>266114</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Shannon]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Rockville, MD]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/266114-shannon]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1186671020p3/266114.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1186671020p2/266114.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 07 04:19:02 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 07 04:19:46 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Eh. I didn't hate this book, but I didn't really like it either. It certainly wasn't the writing style that didn't hold my interest...I just couldn't ever really get into the story.]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80151409]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80151409]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>52531950</id>
    <user>
    <id>2197691</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Royce]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2197691-royce-houthuijzen]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-U-111x148.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 13 13:30:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 13 13:30:37 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book the least of all her books.  All the others were really good!!!]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52531950]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52531950]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>76597227</id>
    <user>
    <id>1419677</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Lisa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cambridge, MA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1419677-lisa]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-111x148.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 03 11:15:45 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 03 11:21:19 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[The plot seemed contrived.  Did not get the MO of the main character --  ]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76597227]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76597227]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>28377386</id>
    <user>
    <id>1146828</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Michelle]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Oxford, OH]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1146828-michelle]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1214395151p3/1146828.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1214395151p2/1146828.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 26 15:49:39 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 29 04:47:24 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[This was a very interesting tale, as all of Alice McDermott's books seem to be.  You've got some Roman Catholic issues, and some interesting young woman identity issues, plus some issues of different ways of telling stories.  Haven't thought about that, but all of these people are story tellers in o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28377386">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28377386]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28377386]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>53666888</id>
    <user>
    <id>1144438</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Meg]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Palo Alto, CA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1144438-meg]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1259355933p3/1144438.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1259355933p2/1144438.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">2127805</id>
  <isbn>0394522028</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780394522029</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamists Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1217686517m/2127805.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1217686517s/2127805.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2127805.A_Bigamists_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>0</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 22 19:22:23 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 22 19:22:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[novel]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53666888]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53666888]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>36147171</id>
    <user>
    <id>1654031</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Mona]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Victorville, CA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1654031-mona]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1224902821p3/1654031.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1224902821p2/1654031.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="pop-airport-best-sellers" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone with a bad case of insomnia.]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Wed Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 24 19:34:02 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 29 14:47:34 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I put down this book once because it was so boring. The second time I picked it up, I was determined to finish it...and it was still boring.<br/><br/>I kept forgetting who the protagonist was and why she started a relationship with the writer. The plot made no sense and got interesting around page...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36147171">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36147171]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36147171]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>16252978</id>
    <user>
    <id>726974</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Lisa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/726974-lisa]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1232908909p3/726974.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1232908909p2/726974.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="books-from-the-vitale-library" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 24 12:18:46 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 24 12:21:43 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[It was seriously difficult to believe that the same author wrote this book as well as Charming Billy. While Charming Billy was not the most enthralling book I read this year, the writing was so much better. This novel had an interesting premise, but the descriptive language was often trashy at the b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16252978">more...</a>]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16252978]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16252978]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>22121835</id>
    <user>
    <id>1026447</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Mary]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1026447-mary]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-111x148.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 12 21:03:15 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 12 21:11:59 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[The mian character is &quot;executive editor&quot; at a vanity publisher.  She is also the daughter of a marriage that not exclusive on her father's part.  What's real, what purpose to our delusions serve?  Not McDermott's best (i loved &quot;Charming Billy&quot; and enjoyed &quot;Child of My Heart&quot;...]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22121835]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22121835]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>2205834</id>
    <user>
    <id>124057</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Alexis]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/124057-alexis]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1181518841p3/124057.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1181518841p2/124057.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 21 08:01:30 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 21 08:17:53 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I didn't finish this book. It was one of her early ones and as a writer, McDermott just gets better and better. I didn't think this was nearly as good as &quot;Child of my Heart&quot; or &quot;After This&quot; both of which have fuller characters and more inventive use of language.]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2205834]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2205834]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>1627083</id>
    <user>
    <id>103226</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Samira]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Atlanta, GA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/103226-samira]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1186979038p3/103226.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1186979038p2/103226.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="couldntfinish" />
        <shelf name="novels" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 03 09:26:31 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 14 09:58:53 -0700 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Okay, I hated this book.]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1627083]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1627083]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>15031437</id>
    <user>
    <id>763244</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Nora]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Diego, CA]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/763244-nora]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-111x148.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
            <shelf name="grown-up-shelf" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 09 22:41:07 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 18 01:28:22 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Yikes.]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15031437]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15031437]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>81470889</id>
    <user>
    <id>3055585</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Marian]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cambridge, CB, The United Kingdom]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3055585-marian]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1261158406p3/3055585.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1261158406p2/3055585.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 19 06:10:24 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 19 06:10:24 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81470889]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81470889]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>81147543</id>
    <user>
    <id>1613539</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Carrie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lake Zurich, IL]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1613539-carrie-straka]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1260919752p3/1613539.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1260919752p2/1613539.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">570299</id>
  <isbn>0385333293</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780385333290</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175885372m/570299.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175885372s/570299.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/570299.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[This tale of a southern writer and the New York editor who helps shape the ending of his novel and the beginning of his future was called by &quot;Newsweek&quot; &quot;a wise, sad, witty novel about men and women, God, hope, love, illusion, and fiction itself&quot;.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>0</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
            <shelf name="to-read" />
      </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 15 19:21:45 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 17 16:01:26 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81147543]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81147543]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>80917135</id>
    <user>
    <id>2893501</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Amy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Catonsville, MD]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2893501-amy]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-111x148.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 13 19:17:24 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 13 19:17:24 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80917135]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80917135]]></link>
</review>
      <review>
  <id>80421609</id>
    <user>
    <id>3025762</id>
    <name><![CDATA[Arielle]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3025762-arielle]]></link>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-111x148.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
  </user>
    <book>
  <id type="integer">175168</id>
  <isbn>0747568251</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780747568254</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">14</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710m/175168.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432710s/175168.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175168.A_Bigamist_s_Daughter</link>
  <average_rating>2.88</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>93</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Connelly sits in a New York office that looks like a real editor's, but isn't quite. Employed at a vanity press, Elizabeth watches the real world of real struggles, passion, pain, and love spin around her. Until one day, a young writer comes to her with a novel about a man who loves more than one woman at once. And suddenly Elizabeth will be awakened from her young urban professional slumber by a man's real touch, by a real story in search of an ending, by the unraveling of the greatest masquerade of all in <em>Alice McDermott's</em> luminous novel of memory, revelation, and desire.]]>
  </description>
  <published>1982</published>
</book>

    <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
  <shelves>
        <shelf name="read" />
          </shelves>
  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Dec 09 10:40:32 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 09 10:40:32 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80421609]]></url>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80421609]]></link>
</review>
    </reviews>
  <popular_shelves>
          <shelf name="to-read" />
          <shelf name="novels" />
          <shelf name="currently-reading" />
          <shelf name="paperback" />
          <shelf name="leisure-reading" />
          <shelf name="mfa-school-faculty" />
          <shelf name="booker-nobel-or-pulitzer-author" />
      </popular_shelves>
  <book_links>
    <book_link>
  <id>8</id>
  <name><![CDATA[WorldCat]]></name>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=570299</link>
</book_link>
  </book_links>
</book>
</GoodreadsResponse>