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Synopsis
Martha Moody's national bestseller—a compassionate and tender novel about best friends from college. A testament to the power of female friendship.
When Clare Mann arrives at Oberlin in 1973, she’s never met anyone like Sally Rose. Rich and beautiful, Sally is utterly foreign to a middle-class, Midwestern Protestant like Clare—and utterly fascinating. The fascination only grows when Sally brings her home to L.A. Mr. Rose—charismatic, charming, and owner of a profitable business shrouded in secrey—is nearly as compelling a figure to Clare as he is to his own daughter. California seems like paradise after winters in Ohio. And Clare begins to look forward desperately to these visits, to carefree rides in Sally’s Kharmann Ghia and lazy poolside days.
As the years pass, Clare becomes a doctor and Sally a lawyer, always remaining roommates at heart, a plane ride or phone call away. Marriages and divorces and births and deaths do not separate them. But secrets might—for as Clare watches, the Rose family begins to self-destruct before her eyes. And the things she knows are the kinds of things that no one wants to tell a best friend.
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Martha Moody is the author of the national bestseller Best Friends and the novel The Office of Desire. A practicing physician, she lives in Ohio with her family.
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In 1973 at Oberlin College, Clare, an Ohio WASP, meets Sally, a Jewish Californian, and the two become best friends. As the women grow closer, soap-opera-like disasters drop like black balloons into their pretty pink lives. The sudden death of Sally's fiancé, multiple failed marriages, molestation, heroin addiction, and the revelation of terrible family secrets are but a few of the challenges facing their friendship. Renée Raudman's sweet, breathy voice is wispy and childlike. Consequently, her women sound fey, fragile, and a bit too precious. By contrast, her male characters sound constricted, as if they have something caught in their throats. While the notion that friendships withstand hard times is worthy, Raudman's narration does little to distract from the novel's tendency toward melodrama. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherRiverhead Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1573229350
- ISBN 13 9781573229357
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages512
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