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Le Plus Bel Ã¢ge (French Edition) (2000)

by Joanna Rakoff(Favorite Author)

3.02 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

2258081343 (ISBN13: 9782258081345)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

review 1: I really enjoyed this book. Although I am several years older than the characters, I also went to Oberlin College and lived in NYC in the 90's (early 90's). This book really captured the vibe of the time, but I just missed the whole Williamsburg, beginning of IT, 9/11 scenarios in the book. My peers were also in the arts like the people in this book, so their struggles rang very true. There is a wanna-be actress, a musician with a rock band, a writer, someone in publishing, and some political activists. The structure of the book echoes McCarthy's "The Group" and unlike one reviewer, I like that it skips ahead and tells each characters story at a different point in time. I loved the Group and really feel this novel is an appropriate homage, as it's character were mode... morern and forward looking but also struggled with what it meant to be a woman in their specific time.
review 2: I heard about this when I was reading reviews of "The Romantics," which I read a few weeks ago and hated. One reviewer said that this book was a similar premise of "The Romantics," except much better, and she was right. This was really well-written and I found myself absorbed in the characters' lives. It did drag at parts, and I thought it could use a bit more editing, but overall, it was a good read. less

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