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Title: She is Me: A Novel by Cathleen Schine ISBN: 0-316-78609-8 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2
Rating: 3
Summary: Just OK
Comment: I bought this book because I really loved "The Love Letter." This one has some great characters, fun relationships, and some really good writing, but the death and dying and monotonous routine of day to day caretaking was a bummer. Been there, done that, don't want to read endless details about it thank you. I kept waiting (I think too long) for more interesting stuff to happen. I was actually ready for another fun read like "The Love Letter," so maybe I'm a little biased. Maybe this is also more of a "woman's" book. I thought the male characters, especially Brett, who I thought was pretty cool, didn't get enough treatment, but maybe that's the point ("She is Me" is the title isn't it?). I knew I took a risk with that title, and it did disappoint a bit.
Rating: 5
Summary: A comic, soulful tour de force
Comment: Even with the great review this novel got in the LA Times, I was not prepared for the depth, comic deftness and delightful characters Shine treats us to in SHE IS ME. I really loved this book!! The complexities of family relationships and responsiblities butting up against the sometimes ungovernable passions that overtake these three generations of women were beautifully conveyed. I laughed out loud several times....I also cried. It's so rare to find a novel that deals with real experience, like illness, and desire, and taking care of children and parents, with so much humor and so much heart. One of our finest novelists.
Rating: 4
Summary: insightful look at three and a fraction generations
Comment: Greta is the sandwich generation dealing with her ailing mother Lotte and her adult (with her own child) daughter Elizabeth. Things were okay for the California based landscape artist as her spouse is a nice person, her work enjoyable, and she is at some distance from the other generationals. That changes after her father dies and Lotte demands more of her time especially since the Jewish matriarch learns she has a nasty facial skin cancer. Elizabeth, with her preschool aged son and boyfriend, has relocated from NYC to work on a screenplay of Madame Bovary.
Greta loves her extended family, but would prefer less demand as she can only supply so much. However, the biggest issue to confront Greta is her deepest feelings especially after being diagnosed with colon cancer. She wonders about what she has done with her life and why she suddenly finds herself extremely attracted to film director Daisy Piperino since she has been a heterosexual from the moment she discovered boys.
SHE IS ME is an insightful look at three and a fraction (Greta's grandson is only three years old) generations of Americans. Each of the key characters especially the trio of women is fully developed so the audience can easily distinguish what motivates each one. The support cast enables an even deeper look inside the prime threesome though the tale lacks any major relational conflict as everyone tries to be considerate of each other. Still fans of a powerful perspective on the modern family will appreciate Cathleen Schine's novel because most of us will see much of ourselves as one of the she (or a support he).
Harriet Klausner
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Title: The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman ISBN: 0679463135 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Namesake : A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri ISBN: 0395927218 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Saul and Patsy : A Novel by Charles Baxter ISBN: 0375410295 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Wife: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer ISBN: 0684869403 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy ISBN: 0743244354 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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