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Title: Good Grief : A Novel by Lolly Winston ISBN: 0-446-53304-1 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.59 (71 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Lolly Can Write!
Comment: "Good Grief" is a book rich with all of the textures, emotions, ups and downs of life, with a healthy dash of sarcasism and humor. Winston's tale is heartwarming, while reading it I laughed, cried and took visits to similar situations down Memory Lane. I have been heartily recommending this book to everyone. Great pace--good read, especially for the beach!
Rating: 4
Summary: A novel of overcoming loss
Comment: Sophie has just lost her husband of three years to cancer and is drowning in her loss. She can't imagine life without her husband and begins to spiral out of control until one day, she goes to work in her bathrobe and slippers, not caring who sees her or what happens. Diagnosed with a depressive breakdown, Sophie decides to sell her house and moved to Ashland, OR to be near her best friend.
There she finds a new job in a restaurant and takes on the role of Big Sister to Crystal, a 13-year old girl who's mother pays no attention to her and who sets fires and injures herself for release. She also begins clumsily dating again and meets Drew, a Shakespearean actor who threatens to sweep her off her feet. In the process of taking care of the people she cares about, including Crystal, Ruth (her friend), and her Mother-In-Law Marion, who has Alzheimer's, she begins to find new strength and a will to persevere after her loss.
Lolly Winston has written many moving scenes of grief that will resonate with you...when Sophie unthinkingly donates her living room furniture to Goodwill rather than the boxes of Ethan's belongings that she meant to, you will want to take her in your arms and try to convince her that everything will work out.
Sophie also lost her mother to a car accident when she was 13, and Winston nicely wove her feelings about that loss into the thread of the story. From the book jacket, I was expecting to read a comedic novel, and while there are some funny moments in the book, all in all, it was more touching and poignant than anything else.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Grief....Great Reading
Comment: Sophie Stanton wasn't planning on being a 36 year old widow. Faced with her husband Ethan's death,she tries to be a good widow ..."a graceful composed Jackie Kennedy kind of widow." No such luck. Sophie pushes down her grief and anger,until a spectacular work place meltdown(which she attends in her bathrobe and bunny slippers).No longer will she be in public relations at Silicon Valley's Gorgatech,pitching the pluses of the company's new scrotal patch. She can't even face her mother in law, Marion, who seems untouched by her only son's death. She clings to Ethan's belongings and tries to face life alone.
Eventually she finds refuge in Ashton,Oregon living with her college friend Ruth. Life just isn't meant to be pretty. Sophie finds as she tries to navigate building a new life she has to not only accept that Ethan hasn't just "stepped out for a minute" but is never coming home and she can choose to go on.
This is such a tender, witty, well written story that I had a hard time believing it was a first book. Lolly Winston deftly weaves the various stages of grief ,acceptance and continuing life without a false note. The characters are engaging, the situations poignant, heart wrenching and sometimes hilarious (Al,the grief group guy is a classic). Through it all Sophie comes to terms with her loss, Ethan's frailities,and the ability we all have to continue to reach out to help others and heal ourselves.
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Title: Little Children : A Novel by Tom Perrotta ISBN: 0312315716 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Amateur Marriage: A Novel by ANNE TYLER ISBN: 1400042070 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: My Sister's Keeper : A Novel (PICOULT, JODI) by Jodi Picoult ISBN: 0743454529 Publisher: Atria Pub. Date: 06 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters: A Novel by Elisabeth Robinson ISBN: 0316735027 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 07 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: What to Keep : A Novel by RACHEL CLINE ISBN: 1400061830 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 20 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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