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The Girls From Corona Del Mar (2014)

by Rufi Thorpe(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0385351968 (ISBN13: 9780385351966)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Knopf

review 1: Thhis is not a book that skips lightly through girlhood to adult friendships. It's a tough read and more than once I found myself saying "come on! can anything else crappy happen?". But when done, (if I admit that all life isn't peaches and cream, to everyone, all the time,) I decided to give it four stars. While it isn't "happily ever after" I would say it is probably "reality ever after". If not in the mood for somthing that's a little darker than the cover and title might imply, skip it..there are easier buddy books out there.
review 2: Brilliant. Such well developed characters in a narrative that features a lot of ugliness, yet it is written so beautifully. The author manages to include classical mythology and some of modern society's most pressing issu... morees. However I was most impressed by the fact that she condensed Nietzsche's philosophy into the most resonant sound bite I've encountered in a fictional work: "embrace the suck." Amazing! less

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