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The Stager (2014)

by Susan Coll(Favorite Author)

3.24 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0374268819 (ISBN13: 9780374268817)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Sarah Crichton Books

review 1: I picked this up after reading a favorable review that called it a comedy. My worry was that it was going to be fluff ... ummm, no. I did not laugh once, although it was clever. It was an amazing portrait of a narcissist, from the differing viewpoints of those around her. Having put in my own time with a narcissist, I was not amused, but I was incredibly impressed with the insight and description. The ending is so satisfying, true to life, hopeful but with no big bow tying it all up. Upon finishing I went back to see which chapters were written from the narcissist pov ... and none of them were! It's exactly true, everything revolved around her, even when she wasn't ever really there! Stunningly done.
review 2: Susan Coll can craft beautiful sentence after beaut... moreiful sentence. Her take on the Bethesda D.C. area is laugh-out-loud perfect. Plus she works at Politics and Prose and what's not to love about that? My only complaint is that in the best books, you just need someone to root for and these characters are not admirable at all. Read it for the writing and the situation, but go say hi to the author at P and P if you want to meet a really nice person. less

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