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As always I'm a sucker for books where we follow a group of childhood or college friends into their adult lives and here's yet another example of the genre. Once again we've got a bunch of over-achievers (I would like to find one where there aren't ANY graduates of Ivy League or Seven Sister colleges. Even better if some never make college at all. I'm not going to waste a lot of time looking for that one, though.) who meet at a summer camp for the arts and become life-long friends. However, most
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Contrary to what I'd read about this book (including in the Goodreads summary) before picking it up, artistic talent is not--in my opinion, at least--its main theme. The main theme, as I saw it, is wealth and social status: the ability of wealth to beget more wealth, and the chasm separating the wealthy and the middle class in American society. It is particularly a novel about life in New York. If you lived in New York City for any significant amount of time during the past 50 years, you will ap
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Such a wonderful story. Although I'm a bit younger than the protagonist, I fully get her almost pathological need to be an outsider. Within a bunch of outsiders. She nails so much of the language we throw around daily, be it teenage girl, young gay man, older mothers, missing sons..... I'm almost finished and really don't want it to end. Just amazing.
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