Check out this Five Star Review For "Love, Loss and Longing in the Age of Reagan: Diary of a Mad Club Girl"
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07/05/2015
Review Rating:
5 stars!
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Reviewed By Jack Magnus for Readers’ Favorite
Love, Loss and Longing in the Age of Reagan: Diary of a Mad Club Girl is a young adult coming of age novel written by Iris Dorbian. Edie fell in love with Greenwich Village when she was 15 years old. Her parents had taken her to see a musical performance there, and she left with a resolve to get her sliding grades back under control and work towards admission to NYU. It worked, and she made the move from Bergen County, New Jersey, across the river to the big city. New York was a heady place to be in 1979, the year Edie began her academic life at NYU. And from almost the beginning of her freshman year, there was Peter. Alternately enticing and faintly repulsive, Peter would be Edie's first real boyfriend, though their relationship was soon soured by his infidelities. Even as she went on with her life, there was never really any way to avoid him.
Iris Dorbian's young adult coming of age story, Love, Loss and Longing in the Age of Reagan: Diary of a Mad Club Girl, is a marvelous and compelling tale that reads like a memoir and immerses the reader in New York City during the 1980s. This story is so authentic and real that at times I had to remind myself that I was reading fiction. I fell in love with New York City all over again as I was seeing and experiencing it through Edie's eyes. Dorbian's characters are thoughtfully and carefully crafted, and her plot takes the reader through Edie's four years at NYU with an intuitive feel for how those college years do rush by, and she conveys that dislocated, sad and nostalgic feeling many seniors get as they approach graduation day so well. Love, Loss and Longing in the Age of Reagan is a most impressive debut novel that was a sheer delight to read. It's most highly recommended.
07/05/2015
Review Rating:
5 stars!
Mad Club Girl"|25341926]Reviewed By Jack Magnus for Readers’ Favorite
Love, Loss and Longing in the Age of Reagan: Diary of a Mad Club Girl is a young adult coming of age novel written by Iris Dorbian. Edie fell in love with Greenwich Village when she was 15 years old. Her parents had taken her to see a musical performance there, and she left with a resolve to get her sliding grades back under control and work towards admission to NYU. It worked, and she made the move from Bergen County, New Jersey, across the river to the big city. New York was a heady place to be in 1979, the year Edie began her academic life at NYU. And from almost the beginning of her freshman year, there was Peter. Alternately enticing and faintly repulsive, Peter would be Edie's first real boyfriend, though their relationship was soon soured by his infidelities. Even as she went on with her life, there was never really any way to avoid him.
Iris Dorbian's young adult coming of age story, Love, Loss and Longing in the Age of Reagan: Diary of a Mad Club Girl, is a marvelous and compelling tale that reads like a memoir and immerses the reader in New York City during the 1980s. This story is so authentic and real that at times I had to remind myself that I was reading fiction. I fell in love with New York City all over again as I was seeing and experiencing it through Edie's eyes. Dorbian's characters are thoughtfully and carefully crafted, and her plot takes the reader through Edie's four years at NYU with an intuitive feel for how those college years do rush by, and she conveys that dislocated, sad and nostalgic feeling many seniors get as they approach graduation day so well. Love, Loss and Longing in the Age of Reagan is a most impressive debut novel that was a sheer delight to read. It's most highly recommended.
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