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The ultimate trashy beach read. The chick-lit novel that comes with balls. Every main character is unpleasant to some degree, even the prim and proper Anne who wanted to get out of a small town, but doesn't realize how much of that social convention she carries with her. Her naivety contrasts with Jennifer's vanity and thirst for love, Helen's two-faced bitchiness, and Neely's self-destructiveness and growing aspiration to become famous. Pills a ...more
No change in rating. Come on now!
The ultimate trashy beach read. The chick-lit novel that comes with balls. Every main character is unpleasant to some degree, even the prim and proper Anne who wanted to get out of a small town, but doesn't realize how much of that social convention she carries with her. Her naivety contrasts with Jennifer's vanity and thirst for love, Helen's two-faced bitchiness, and Neely's self-destructiveness and growing aspiration to become famous. Pills a ...more
I read this in my 20's and posted it here (a while ago) because I felt it was an important novel since it dealt with the drug area of the 70's and the pressure on young women who struggled within corporate, male-world, America. I can say this because I lived it.
This novel is set in NYC, a place I adore, though I never lived there. However, I "summered" (hung out) there with my older sister and her (generous and kind) friends in the mid 70's. It was a safe place back then. I'm not exactly sure ho ...more
This novel is set in NYC, a place I adore, though I never lived there. However, I "summered" (hung out) there with my older sister and her (generous and kind) friends in the mid 70's. It was a safe place back then. I'm not exactly sure ho ...more
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