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| Original Title: | Love and Other Impossible Pursuits |
| ISBN: | 1415927464 (ISBN13: 9781415927465) |
Ayelet Waldman
Audio CD | Pages: 181 pages Rating: 3.64 | 3621 Users | 519 Reviews
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| Title | : | Love and Other Impossible Pursuits |
| Author | : | Ayelet Waldman |
| Book Format | : | Audio CD |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 181 pages |
| Published | : | January 24th 2006 by Books on Tape (first published January 1st 2006) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Contemporary. New York. Novels |
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In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman's passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with. But life seems a lot less rosy when Emilia has to deal with the most neurotic and sheltered five-year-old in New York City: her new stepson William. Now Emilia finds herself trying to flag down taxis with a giant, industrial-strength car seat, looking for perfect, strawberry-flavored, lactose-free cupcakes, receiving corrections on her French pronunciation from her supercilious stepson - and attempting to find balance in a new family that's both larger, and smaller, than she bargained for. In "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits" Ayelet Waldman has created a novel rich with humor and truth, perfectly characterizing one woman's search for answers in a crazily uncertain world. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
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Ratings: 3.64 From 3621 Users | 519 ReviewsCriticize Containing Books Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
This is a very funny, poignant and moving book about the loss of a baby and the developing relationship with a step-child. Sad and compellingly funny, a good sense of the narrator; twist of Freudian psychology seems a bit forced, but otherwise this is a modern NYC based book which is a lovesong to Central Park. The city itself plays a clear role as a character in the story.I absolutely love this book.
Oh, how I hated this book. I felt so sorry for the little boy, while thinking the whole time that pretty much all the adults needed to be shot out of a cannon into the sun.
Tried, but couldn't finish this one. Such hateable characters!
I go back and forth a lot with this one. Waldman does something very interesting in this book and I;m still not sure how I feel about it, and for that I give her a bonus star for what was otherwise a pretty badly written story.LAOIP is about a lawyer named Emilia who falls madly, desperately in love with Jack, a nice Jewish lawyer who -whoops - happens to be married. Jack resists until he can't anymore and they end up together. Cliche.Interesting, not cliche aspects that I appreciated:1 - The
I am sure that many will love Emilia. I found her to be selfish and despicable. She seems to. Revel in the fact that she fell "in love with" a married man and sets out to seduce him at any costs. That she then dislikes his preschool aged son and treats him with thinly veiled contempt and seems to somehow feels herself superior to his mother, because the mother uses a nanny is just too much for me to take. This book is well paced and disliking a character has not precluded me from enjoying some
Despite the many, many problems I had with this book, I ultimately enjoyed it. A lot of people have written the main character, Emilia, as whiny and self-pitying - and she is, and she admits it. But I don't think it's too far off considering she'd lost a child and blames herself heavily for the loss. I did enjoy watching her warm up to William, her stepson, and I really liked the tours of Central Park that Waldman took us on. I did not like that the ex-wife and the father were rather
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