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Title: How Close We Come by Susan S. Kelly ISBN: 0446675342 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82
Rating: 4
Summary: How Close They Did Come!
Comment: What a wonderfully short, little, polished read How Close We Come is! This book focuses on two adult women who become true friends and depend on each other, as they go through the ups and downs of stay-at-home motherhood. As a reader, I felt the friendship grow and felt satisfaction and reassurance that female companionship is genuine and something that women, like myself & Pril, become dependant upon. I also enjoyed Kelly's perception of the way the husbands viewed the friendship between their wives Ruth & Pril.
The bottom line: The story of these two women will touch your heart and remind you how valid friendships between heterosexual women are.
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting juxtaposition of characters and their reactions
Comment: Our bookclub read this book and really liked it. Much discussion came of the questions about who was the stronger of the two women, was the end something that might really happen, how would we have developed the characters of the men (another novel, Ms. Kelly?) and if we thought the relationship between the two friends was realistic. Great book for women to discuss. It is hard, however, to write a review without telling too many of the books secrets! We all look forward to watching Susan Kelly's career.
Rating: 5
Summary: WHY we women need one another
Comment: This book was required reading for a class I took entitled "Politics of Gender". I was also fortunate to have a friend of the author as a classmate, who arranged for Susan to come to class one evening as a guest speaker. This book has meant so much to me, as I have read it twice (and am now reading it for the third time) and have bought several copies to pass onto friends (I am hanging onto my autographed copy like gold!). I first read it at time when I was in mourning over the loss of a close friendship and felt uncomfortable about all the pain I was going through. This book validated that what I felt was normal for a heterosexual female. Two years later, the pain has led me to a better place. Susan told me that pain is necessary for growth and she is 100% accurate. Today I have moved beyond the pain, but still lack a lot of contact with other women. I have a number of long time friends, but our lives have all gone in very different directions, and as a result of that we do not see one another very often. For now I rely on re-reading Susan's book and watching videos of Mary and Rhoda. THANK YOU, Susan, your book has saved my life emotionally!
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Title: Saying Grace by Beth R. Gutcheon ISBN: 0060927275 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Domestic Pleasures : A Novel by Beth Gutcheon ISBN: 006093476X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 04 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Even Now by Susan S. Kelly ISBN: 0446527629 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: July, 1901 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Five Fortunes by Beth R. Gutcheon ISBN: 0060929952 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The New Girls by Beth R. Gutcheon ISBN: 0060977027 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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