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Title: Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes ISBN: 0-06-055725-7 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 27 April, 2004 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.87 (53 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: 3 Irish women search for happiness
Comment: Keyes takes us into the lives of 3 modern Dublin women and their search for eternal happiness. She writes some of the best chick-lit that's being published, and this is a goodie to add to the genre's bookshelves. These three women work for Colleen, a trendy women's magazine. One is a chronic worrier, one is a tyrant, and one is too domestic for words. Stir them up and put a Prada bag in the middle of the table, and watch them turn into children squabbling over who gets the Gucci wallet.
Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite Marian Keyes novel!
Comment: Having read Marian Keyes's previous books, I knew I had to get my hands on this one. I was not disappointed. Once again, Keyes writes a wonderful novel that mixes a dark plot with sharp and witty situations.
Sushi for Beginners, like Last Chance Saloon, focuses on various characters in third person narrative. Set in Dublin, Lisa, an ambitious Londoner, has been given the task of launching a new fashion magazine for Irish women. After she somewhat recuperates from the initial culture shock, she meets some rather eccentric characters at work. She decides she dislikes Ashling, the sweet deputy editor, and develops a crush on Jack Devine, the Managing Director and notorious maverick. What develops is a tale of betrayal, deceit and heartbreak. One of these people is on the verge of a nervous breakdown... Who will it be?
The focal point of this novel is depression. Ashling suffers a bout of the aforementioned mental illness when Clodagh, her best friend, shows her true colors. Ashling's world captivated and spoke to me. What I love about Marian Keyes is that she mixes tender romance with a serious subject matter that readers could relate to. I love the wit in this novel -- much more subtle than her previous efforts. I also love all of the secondary characters -- namely Trix, Dylan and Jack Devine. As mentioned, Sushi for Beginners is my favorite Keyes novel. Highly recommended...
Rating: 4
Summary: A Reliable Author
Comment: Marian Keyes is a reliable author, and in SUSHI FOR BEGINNERS, she does not disappoint her many fans.
Ms. Keyes specializes in chick lit with an Irish lilt. Yet in SUSHI, in common with her other novels, she examines issues that neither are shallow nor trivial.
While the theme of Dublin singles is a bit boring and a bit tiring--looking for love being universal--the rest of the book is marvelous. The author examines infidelity and betrayal, the crippling aspects of clinical depression and the problems of the homeless. And, while this list of issues may sound appalling in a woman's novel, these topics actually are what gives this particular book texture and richness.
Readers can rely on Marian Keyes for a good read.
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Title: Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes ISBN: 0060090383 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Angels by Marian Keyes ISBN: 0060008032 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Under the Duvet : Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities by Marian Keyes ISBN: 0060562080 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Watermelon by Marian Keyes ISBN: 0060090367 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married by Marian Keyes ISBN: 0060090375 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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