false<![CDATA[Man of My Dreams]]>7262217Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which, in Hannah's observation, is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into adulthood.
In her acclaimed debut novel, <i>Prep</i>, Curtis Sittenfeld created a touchstone with her pitch-perfect portrayal of adolescence. Her prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman's fantasies of family and love with the challenges and realities of adult life.
Hannah Gavener is fourteen in the summer of 1991. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's own life, her parents' marriage is crumbling. And somewhere in between these two extremes - just maybe - lie the answers to love's most bewildering questions. But over the next decade and a half, as she moves from Philadelphia to Boston to Albuquerque, Hannah finds that the questions become more rather than less complicated: At what point can you no longer blame your adult failures on your messed-up childhood? Is settling for someone who's not your soul mate an act of maturity or an admission of defeat? And if you move to another state for a guy who might not love you back, are you being plucky - or just pathetic?
None of the relationships in Hannah's life are without complications. There's her father, whose stubbornness Hannah realizes she's unfortunately inherited; her gorgeous cousin, Fig, whose misbehavior alternately intrigues and irritates Hannah; Henry, whom Hannah first falls for in college, while he's dating Fig; and the boyfriends who love her more or less than she deserves, who adore her or break her heart. By the time she's in her late twenties, Hannah has finally figured out what she wants most - but she doesn't yet know whether she'll find the courage to go after it.
Full of honesty and humor, <i>The Man of My Dreams</i> is an unnervingly insightful and beautifully written examination of the outside forces and personal choices that make us who we are.9783252006The Man of My Dreams: A Noveltotal:2785|5:191|4:709|3:1191|2:567|1:127|27858625366549335falsefalseSun Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008Tue May 27 20:23:22 -0700 2008Tue Jun 17 05:52:12 -0700 2008 Here, we're presented with a rehash of Lee...more...]]>
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Prep. In fact, it’s not hard to imagine it as the continued story of Prep’s insecure heroine, Lee, as she navigates college and post-college life. Unfortunately, though the writing style and themes are similar to Sittenfeld’s first novel, Man ...more...]]>
41falsefalseTue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009Tue Mar 17 10:21:51 -0700 2009Wed Apr 08 08:24:06 -0700 2009 Regardless, Sittenfeld is such an amazing author. Sometimes, when reading her books, I get distracted in thinking "she is SUCH a good writer" and...more...]]>
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The Man of My Dreams protagonist, is no exception.
Feeling as thought she never quite fit in her fam...more...]]>
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Prep all that much, but others seem to enjoy her work, so I thought I'd give The Man of My Dreams a try. It was OK. Quick read. Could be nice on an airplane or as a book to keep in your bag to read while you wait in line o...more...]]>
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Prep, and there's a couple of passages of exquisite writing where the author captures the essence of feeling ambivalent about love and what it's all supposed to mean, but on the whole...it's kind of meh. Decent writing, but nothing very interestin...more...]]>
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Prep</> because I really felt like she captured the awkwardness and self discovery of the teenaged main character. With The Man of My Dreams she delivers that awkwardness and self discovery again, but this time with even more...more...]]>
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