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Loose Diamonds (2011)

by Amy Ephron(Favorite Author)

3.3 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061958743 (ISBN13: 9780061958748)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

William Morrow

review 1: A series of essays that together weave a word tapesty incorporating events from Amy Ephron's life from her childhood, single young adulthood years, marriage, childbirth and child-rearing, divorce, and second marriage. She explores problems such as her mother's mental illness (briefly mentioned and not explored), her separated husband's serial dating of women she knows, and the problems of blending families and children in second marriages. She writes about broken friendships and relationships along the way, about reporting a suspected terrorist to the crew of an airplane getting ready to fly from San Francisco to Los Angeles in the pre-9-11 days, and about interviewing, at age 19, "Squeaky" Fromme during the Charles Manson trial at the ranch where members of the Manson fa... moremily lived. While the essays are very amusing (I mean which among us has had her husband's girfriend ram her car repeatedly into the back of our car while we are waiting to pick up a child after school?), there is a sense that these essays are the first draft of a longer work to come.
review 2: Amy Ephron is, like her sister, Nora, a witty, engaging, deft writer. I enjoyed Loose Diamonds...mostly. The book is funny--Ephron's take on things is a little snarky and and always well written. My one criticism is that, by the end of the book, I was really tired of hearing about expensive shoes, celebrities she's met at parties, her expensive car, and all the amazing places she's been. It's sort of like People Magazine--I like to leaf through it in the doctor's office, but 200 pages of it gets a little tedious. less

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