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Title: The Unprofessionals : A Novel by JULIE HECHT ISBN: 1-4000-6174-1 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The Professionals: (Is it) A Novel (?)
Comment: I have enjoyed many of Julie Hecht's stories in the New Yorker, but I don't feel that her style can sustain a reader's interest for 227 pages. I read the whole thing, but was puzzled by it. The first 20 or so pages never mention "the boy," then all of a sudden, his life is the whole focus.
I suppose the main character is revealed by her reactions to events in the boy's life, but not much. She is the same character who appears in the stories and much of this is a continuation of the stories which in themselves were somewhat chronological in the character's life. If a reader comes to this without having read any of the stories, he or she is bound to be lost.
I found the boy totally unsympathetic and not a believable character. I was much more interested in the main character's observations on modern life and her trips to various stores. I would have liked to learn more about her relationship with her husband. It's amazing that she has one. Who could live with her?
Anyhow, if she writes another book, I won't be reading it. Enough is enough.
Rating: 1
Summary: Excited at first, then lost interest completely
Comment: Having grown up on Long Island and Nantucket, I was excited to see a first novel set in such familiar surroundings. I am interested in the topic of drugs, both legal and illegal, and my expectations were very high as the novel began.
After twenty pages I started to wonder where this novel was going, and then I found myself speed-reading to see if there was any developing story, and then I lost interest altogether. I almost never completely lose interest in a novel, especially one that is so promising to begin with, but this novel was dreadful. The protagonist is overbearingly anal and whiny and the story goes absolutely nowhere...it is though we are reading a diary, and a diary of a life that is simply rather boring and full of anxiety about anxiety. Five yawns to this one.....
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect Second Act
Comment: The Unprofessionals is a perfect second act to Hecht's collection of short stories, "Do the Windows Open?" She paints her characters with a very fine brush and her language is equally immaculate: there is never a word out of place or a vulgar shortcut when it comes to portraying emotion. Hecht is a consummate professional when it comes to writing. Anyone who winces when they read something badly written should treat themselves to both books.
I look forward to re-reading this novel and reading what ever will come next.
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Title: Do the Windows Open? by Julie Hecht ISBN: 0140271457 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Namesake : A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri ISBN: 0395927218 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Brick Lane: A Novel by Monica Ali ISBN: 0743243307 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather by Jincy Willett ISBN: 0312311818 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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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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