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Three eligible sisters from an affluent suburban Philadelphia family, Alice, Isabel, and Tina become caught up in their domineering mother's single-minded plans to see them all happily married, in a witty domestic comedy of love, marriage, and manners. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.
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Rachel Pastan is a graduate of the Iowa WritersÂ’ Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in a range of publications and earned a number of awards, including the PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize. This is her first novel.
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The venerable Jane Austen would no doubt be astonished to find herself compared via back cover copy to the author of this dreary, plodding tale of matrimony and mishegas in modern-day Philadelphia. Dr. Evelyn Rubin became a doctor at a time when women simply didn't become doctors, but in her 60s, her only source of pleasure is getting her own daughters safely married off. She's succeeded with the middle child, Isabel, who hasn't been able to get her husband to impregnate her; but her bitter disappointments are goody-goody Alice, the eldest, 38, and woefully single, and wild-child Tina, the youngest, who subscribes to the blow-and-throw disposable-man school of dating. Men of varying degrees of suitability wander in and out of the story, upsetting the lives of our three heroines in various ways. Unfortunately, neither the men nor the ensuing turmoil are interesting enough to sustain readers' interest. Sedate to the point of colorlessness ("Still, she did not actually broach the subject with him but asked instead, 'So, when did you first become interested in me?' "), this is an excellent lesson in the difference between going through the motions and pulling out the stops; the ranks of wedding lit won't be improved by this addition.
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- PublisherViking Adult
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0670033065
- ISBN 13 9780670033065
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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