Wedding Season
by DARCY COSPER | Women's Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1400051452 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1400051452 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Zambonigirl of Mountain View, California USA on 8/17/2004
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From Publishers Weekly:
Seventeen weddings in six months—what's a girl to do? Especially when she's Joy Silverman, who's perfectly happy in her relationship with Gabe and perfectly adamant about her refusal to ever get married. First, there was the breakup of her parents' marriage and her mother's subsequent emotional meltdown; second, there's the lack of any "empirical evidence that marriage is really all useful or effective these days, that it does anything for relationships and the people in them." But most of Joy's friends and acquaintances—not to mention her recently betrothed mother, father and younger brother—do believe in marriage. Thank goodness cynical Joy's artsy hunk of a boyfriend agrees with her that marriage is as outdated as "using leeches or bloodletting." But everyone keeps asking when Joy and Gabe will tie the knot, a situation that causes Joy no small amount of turmoil. So, from April to September, Joy and Gabe dance and drink and toast; in between weddings, Joy spends plenty of time with pals at the Pantheon, her favorite New York City watering hole. Despite the whirlwind of nuptials, Cosper manages to keep each ceremony distinct (some are formal, some involve paparazzi, some are same-sex commitment ceremonies). Cosper's dialogue can get too jokey, and there are a few too many self-consciously colorful characters. But Joy's narration is sly and sharp, and Cosper doesn't fall into the happily-ever-after trap readers of hip chick fiction have come to expect.
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From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com:
Though it's grandly billed "in the satirical tradition of Jane Austen and Evelyn Waugh," this toothsome but unsatisfying little Jordan almond of a novel actually owes a far greater intellectual debt to the 1994 English romantic comedy "Four Weddings and a Funeral," and the Hollywood spawn it engendered in quick succession: "My Best Friend's Wedding" and "Runaway Bride" -- bland artifacts of madcap upper-middle-class pre-marital mayhem.
Seventeen weddings in six months—what's a girl to do? Especially when she's Joy Silverman, who's perfectly happy in her relationship with Gabe and perfectly adamant about her refusal to ever get married. First, there was the breakup of her parents' marriage and her mother's subsequent emotional meltdown; second, there's the lack of any "empirical evidence that marriage is really all useful or effective these days, that it does anything for relationships and the people in them." But most of Joy's friends and acquaintances—not to mention her recently betrothed mother, father and younger brother—do believe in marriage. Thank goodness cynical Joy's artsy hunk of a boyfriend agrees with her that marriage is as outdated as "using leeches or bloodletting." But everyone keeps asking when Joy and Gabe will tie the knot, a situation that causes Joy no small amount of turmoil. So, from April to September, Joy and Gabe dance and drink and toast; in between weddings, Joy spends plenty of time with pals at the Pantheon, her favorite New York City watering hole. Despite the whirlwind of nuptials, Cosper manages to keep each ceremony distinct (some are formal, some involve paparazzi, some are same-sex commitment ceremonies). Cosper's dialogue can get too jokey, and there are a few too many self-consciously colorful characters. But Joy's narration is sly and sharp, and Cosper doesn't fall into the happily-ever-after trap readers of hip chick fiction have come to expect.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com:
Though it's grandly billed "in the satirical tradition of Jane Austen and Evelyn Waugh," this toothsome but unsatisfying little Jordan almond of a novel actually owes a far greater intellectual debt to the 1994 English romantic comedy "Four Weddings and a Funeral," and the Hollywood spawn it engendered in quick succession: "My Best Friend's Wedding" and "Runaway Bride" -- bland artifacts of madcap upper-middle-class pre-marital mayhem.
Journal Entry 2 by Zambonigirl at Island Design and Gifts on Water St in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Canada on Monday, December 6, 2004
Released on Monday, December 06, 2004 at about 11:30:00 AM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Island Design and Gifts on Water Street in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Canada.
RELEASE NOTES:
Left with the really sweet girl at the counter! Enjoy!
RELEASE NOTES:
Left with the really sweet girl at the counter! Enjoy!
