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Title: Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith ISBN: 0060800496 Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Pub. Date: December, 1971 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12
Rating: 5
Summary: wonderful in its own right
Comment: This book is often compared to Smith's opus "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" and thus many readers miss what is truly great about this book. Whereas "Brooklyn" chronicles Francie's growth within her family from child to woman while weaving in the perspective of her mother, father, aunts, etc., "Tomorrow" is purely about Margie.
"Tomorrow" begins with 16-year-old Margie getting her first job in Brooklyn. It chronicles her courtship and marriage to Frankie, a neighborhood boy with his own family issues i.e. overbearing mother, loud father, myriad sisters. Margie's own parents are none too attentive to their daughter and what she might need, but feel pangs of loss when she decides to get married.
Margie tries to please her mother, mother-in-law, and husband, make ends meet, gets pregnant, and gradually all of these adult conventions that she is supposed to want threaten to destroy her unless she stands up to all of them. Only then will she truly be an adult.
This is an excellent account of a girl becoming a woman and proving it is an internal, not external, journey. The tale is as true today as it was in the 1940s. Female readers will identify with many of the sentiments expressed in this book and find themselves comparing their own lives to it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A GOOD READ
Comment: i agree with the people that say A tree Grows in brooklyn was better (there isnt a book i have read yet that beats it)! I loved a tree grows in Brooklyn and it inspired me to read the rest of Betty Smiths books, i have Maggie Now to read, i thought the book lacked the detail that A Tree Grows In Brooklyn had, and the little things that people notice in Francie that werent present in Margy...still, I felt Smiths writing familiar and comforting in the last chapter which made me remeber why i keep reading the books over and over,good book...not her BEST but still very good...I give it a 4 as a Betty Smith book and a 5 as any other...becuase a Tree Grows In Brooklyn sets the bar so high! read it because its great but read a tree grows in brooklyn and u will have read the greatest!
Rating: 5
Summary: AMAZING
Comment: This book is just as good as A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN and it posses Betty Smith's magical writing. Amazing, and worth buying
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Title: Maggie-Now by Betty Smith ISBN: 0060800984 Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $2.25 |
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Title: Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith ISBN: 0060956860 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith ISBN: 006092988X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ASIN: 6301773586 Publisher: Twentieth Century Fox Pub. Date: 21 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $9.98 |
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Title: True Blue by Luanne Rice ISBN: 0553583980 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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