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All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
written by Janelle Brown
Studio : Spiegel & Grau
by Spiegel & Grau
Release Date : 2008-05-27
Publisher : Spiegel & Grau
Released : 2008-05-27
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780385524018
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 22 reviews)
List Price : $24.95
Our Price : $8.98
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Product Description |
A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer.
When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for — until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, four hundred miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers’ older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her fledgling post-feminist magazine, Snatch. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home where her younger sister Lizzie, 14, is struggling with problems of her own. Formerly chubby, Lizzie has been enjoying her newfound popularity until some bathroom graffiti alerts her to the fact that she’s become the school slut.
The three Miller women retreat behind the walls of their Georgian colonial to wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, mean girls, country club ladies, evangelical neighbors, their own demons, and each other, and in the process they become achingly sympathetic characters we can’t help but root for, even as the world they live in epitomizes everything wrong with the American Dream. Exhilarating, addictive, and superbly accomplished, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything crackles with energy and intelligence and marks the debut of a knowing and very funny novelist, wise beyond her years. |
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Nothing really |
Bad things happen in threes: A mother and two daughters.
Yet another middle aged woman gets dumped by her hubby for another woman. This time instead of a job or BFF coming to her rescue, her two dysfunctional daughters show up. Losers every one, how would they could "help" each other seemed implausible. The cover and title made me want to love it. It is well written so that's why the three stars, but it really was kind of depressing. |
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Great book for moms. daughters and book clubs |
I couldn't put this book down, and didn't want it to end--both cliches, but both true in this case. It started slow for me, because the first chapter is focused on Janice, the older of the three women in the book, and not necessarily an immediately sympathetic character, at the moment that her husband, CEO of an ultra-successful company, lets her know that he's leaving her for her best friend. Somewhere between "I'd leave her too" and "I don't know if I want to read about that", though, I found myself hooked by the writing. It was clear this wasn't just going to be another ampowered first wives book, and it's not.
What follows is the story of not just Janice but her two daughters as well, nearly-thirty Margaret, the most-likely-to-succeed girl who hasn't been able to pull it off, and the youngest, a teenager as reluctant to face up to reality as her older sibling and her mother. All three are busy hiding their problems from each other, which lets them put off dealing with things themselves. What makes the book fun is watching them yank the scabs off of each other's wounds, and then all figure out how to deal with them.
I loved this book. It was a good read--something to get lost in, well written and engulfing and a real pleasure as well. I just sent a copy to my mom. |
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Dreck |
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I don't know how this tome got any good reviews. I don't know how this author made teen sex, quarter-life crisis, food porn and mean-girl politics boring. Very wordy with non-compelling characters. I couldn't wait to finish this tedious tale. I don't think the writing is up to par, I felt like I was reading a college kid's first novel - and not in a good way. Lacked soul and depth. Sorry, take a pass. |
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Don't waste your time |
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I would not recommend this book to anyone - it's was very boring. I kept waiting for it to get better. It never did. |
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Good read! |
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After reading this books description I was very intrigued and the book definitely didn't disappoint. I was left wanting a little more from the ending, but overall it was a very good read. Once I started it, I couldn't wait to see what happened next. Brown's descriptions of these women definitely makes you think a bit about yourself and how your life compares to theirs, and that sometimes what other people think shouldn't matter so much. Can't wait to see what else Janelle Brown has up her sleeve! |
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