Prospect Park West
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
'Prospect Park West' er historien om fire kvinder i det hippe Brooklyn, New York, der på forskelligvis forsøger at finde lykke i og mening med familie-, kærligheds- og sexlivet. Til tider på nogle ret finurlige måder.
Forfatter Amy Sohn har skrevet adskillige bøger og klummer om det hæsblæsende New Yorker-liv.
Amy Sohn (f. 1973) er en amerikansk forfatter, klummeskribent og manuskriptforfatter. Amy Sohns forfatterskab kredser ofte om storbylivet i New York, og særligt hvordan det tager sig ud i Brooklyn, hvor hun selv bor.
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Former New York magazine "Mating" columnist Sohn zeroes in on the more-fertile-than-thou crowd in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood in her vinegary latest (after My Old Man). Like a Grand Hotel for the yuppie set, the lives of moody, angry, dissatisfied mommies intersect on the playgrounds and co-ops of their overpriced hood. Among them, Lizzie, whose lesbian proclivities mask her loneliness; Rebecca, whose libidoless spouse prefers his role as dad over husband; Karen, a social-climbing conniver; and Melora, a former Manhattanite whose psychiatric maladies are as pathetic as they are numerous. The gals in this comedy of bad manners are burned out, bitchy and beyond salvation as they maneuver to be noticed and loved. Meanwhile, there's more name-dropping than in an edition of Page Six, and while Sohn is obviously intent on skewering the annoying urban mommy stereotype, 400 pages is a stretch for material that's been blogged to death. There are moments of brutal honesty, but they're far too few to allow readers to muster an ounce of sympathy for a crew of caricatures so broadly drawn and sadly conceived.
