I'm So Happy for You: A novel about best friends
Autor Lucinda Rosenfelden Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 iul 2009
Wendy's best friend, Daphne, has always been dependably prone to catastrophe. And Wendy has always been there to help. If Daphne veers from suicidal to madly in love, Wendy offers encouragement. But when Daphne is suddenly engaged, pregnant, and decorating a fabulous town house in no time at all, Wendy is...notso happy for her. Caught between wanting to be the best friend she prides herself on being and crippling jealousy of flighty Daphne, Wendy takes things to the extreme, waging a full-scale attack on her best friend-all the while wearing her best, I'm-so-happy-for-you smile-and ends up in way over her head.
Rosenfeld has a knack for exposing the not-always-pretty side of being best friends--in writing that is glittering and diamond-sharp. I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU is a smart, darkly humorous, and uncannily dead-on novel about female friendship.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316044509
ISBN-10: 0316044504
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 137 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316044504
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 137 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
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Notă biografică
Lucinda
Rosenfeld
is
the
author
of
the
novelsWhat
She
Saw...andWhy
She
went
Home.
Her
fiction
and
essays
have
appeared
in
theNew
York
Times
Magazine,
theNew
Yorker,Creative
Non-Fiction,
Slate.com,Glamour,
and
other
magazines.
She
lives
in
Brooklyn,
New
York,
with
her
husband
and
two
young
daughters.
Recenzii
"Rosenfeld
delves
into
the
thornier
side
of
female
friendship
in
this
hip
take
on
modern
womanhood.
Wendy
and
Daphne
have
been
best
friends
forever,
but
their
relationship...comes
to
a
breaking
point
when
Daphne
suddenly
pulls
herself
together,
stops
fooling
around
with
a
married
man
and
finds
a
new
love
interest
who
happens
to
be
handsome,
rich
and
obnoxious....
In
the
course
of
a
few
twists,
misunderstandings
and
revealed
secrets,
Wendy
questions
whether
the
source
of
her
inferiority
complex
is
Daphne
or
herself.
The
two
friends
are
by
turns
frustrating
and
sympathetic,
while
Rosenfeld
takes
a
dark,
hilarious
and
painfully
accurate
view
of
the
less-than-pure
reasons
why
women
stay
friends."—Publishers
Weekly
"While the actions of nearly every character in the book are morally questionable, their emotions are real and often funny.... Rosenfeld demonstrates Wendy's dysfunctional relationships with her friends and family, and addresses the ugliness of envy with both humor and honesty."—Booklist
"Capturing the surprisingly competitive world of Brooklyn brownstones and Bugaboo strollers, Lucinda Rosenfeld'sI'm So Happy for Youtakes the comic measure of the unlikely friendship between two women."—Vogue, "Summer's Best Beach Reads"
"[A] darkly funny story of what happens when friends become frenemies."—Redbook
"I'm So Happy for Youis an amusing and chilling look at the less frequently explored one-upmanship of some female friendships. And while Wendy's psychotic behavior pushes people away, Rosenfeld will only draw fans closer with this masterful cautionary tale."—BookPage
"If you've ever gritted your teeth and offered a phony smile to that one friend who always seems to get everything she wants, Rosenfeld's frenemies tale will ring true...a witty, scathing novel that's a breeze to read."—Entertainment Weekly
"It's a rare page-turner: No one is murdered and no time bombs tick--just a friendship going to seed in the moneyed coliseum of New York City yuppiedom... The feat of Rosenfeld's quick-footed, juicy book is her fine shadings of two complicated but sympathetic figures, alone and in comparison. Neither woman falls into the stereotype of slit-eyed hellcat. Daphne might be self-involved, but even judgmental Wendy will grant that she never says a bad word about anyone... this novel's charms lie in its resolute kindness. The denouement isn't fierce but funny and wistful. Rosenfeld seems to want only the best for Daphne and Wendy: a witty, passionate life, examined just enough to decide on the next object of desire."—Los Angeles Times
"The book's confectionery veneer belies a heart of poison, as Rosenfeld tartly dispels the cherished chick-lit notion that female friendship conquers all. Equally ruthless is her sendup of overachieving New York women in feral pursuit of have-it-all motherhood without having first ascertained if they even like children."—The New Yorker
[A] funny tale of girlfriends gone wrong.... Lucinda Rosenfeld'sI'm So Happy For Youis a novel about female friendship, but it's not one of those sensitive, redeeming jobs. Rosenfeld has written a satire about the dark side, about the envy, the backbiting, the bitchiness. It's nasty, it's funny, and it has a certain undeniable authenticity....I'm So Happy For Youis darkly humorous, with excellent dialogue and sharp observations about contemporary culture."—The Boston Globe
"Despite the enormous popularity of an HBO and an entire literary genre ostensibly devoted to them, female friendships remain strangely underexplored, unlike the search for true love (I'm talking about you, Jane Austen), for which they are regularly thrown aside. Lucinda Rosenfeld stays focused in her new novel,I'm So Happy for You, and it pays off handsomely. The book explores a particularly rich relationship vein-the love of an Everywoman for her more beautiful, more glamorous pal.... Rosenfeld goes beyond the obvious issues of envy and the perils of vicariousness to examine a fascinating byproduct of female empathy.... Small resentments collect until one day, perhaps because of a trivial crime, they explode in a Wagnerian burst of emotion.... [A] thoroughly enjoyable and somewhat rare specimen of chick lit that stays focused on the chicks."—New York Times Book Review
"While the actions of nearly every character in the book are morally questionable, their emotions are real and often funny.... Rosenfeld demonstrates Wendy's dysfunctional relationships with her friends and family, and addresses the ugliness of envy with both humor and honesty."—Booklist
"Capturing the surprisingly competitive world of Brooklyn brownstones and Bugaboo strollers, Lucinda Rosenfeld'sI'm So Happy for Youtakes the comic measure of the unlikely friendship between two women."—Vogue, "Summer's Best Beach Reads"
"[A] darkly funny story of what happens when friends become frenemies."—Redbook
"I'm So Happy for Youis an amusing and chilling look at the less frequently explored one-upmanship of some female friendships. And while Wendy's psychotic behavior pushes people away, Rosenfeld will only draw fans closer with this masterful cautionary tale."—BookPage
"If you've ever gritted your teeth and offered a phony smile to that one friend who always seems to get everything she wants, Rosenfeld's frenemies tale will ring true...a witty, scathing novel that's a breeze to read."—Entertainment Weekly
"It's a rare page-turner: No one is murdered and no time bombs tick--just a friendship going to seed in the moneyed coliseum of New York City yuppiedom... The feat of Rosenfeld's quick-footed, juicy book is her fine shadings of two complicated but sympathetic figures, alone and in comparison. Neither woman falls into the stereotype of slit-eyed hellcat. Daphne might be self-involved, but even judgmental Wendy will grant that she never says a bad word about anyone... this novel's charms lie in its resolute kindness. The denouement isn't fierce but funny and wistful. Rosenfeld seems to want only the best for Daphne and Wendy: a witty, passionate life, examined just enough to decide on the next object of desire."—Los Angeles Times
"The book's confectionery veneer belies a heart of poison, as Rosenfeld tartly dispels the cherished chick-lit notion that female friendship conquers all. Equally ruthless is her sendup of overachieving New York women in feral pursuit of have-it-all motherhood without having first ascertained if they even like children."—The New Yorker
[A] funny tale of girlfriends gone wrong.... Lucinda Rosenfeld'sI'm So Happy For Youis a novel about female friendship, but it's not one of those sensitive, redeeming jobs. Rosenfeld has written a satire about the dark side, about the envy, the backbiting, the bitchiness. It's nasty, it's funny, and it has a certain undeniable authenticity....I'm So Happy For Youis darkly humorous, with excellent dialogue and sharp observations about contemporary culture."—The Boston Globe
"Despite the enormous popularity of an HBO and an entire literary genre ostensibly devoted to them, female friendships remain strangely underexplored, unlike the search for true love (I'm talking about you, Jane Austen), for which they are regularly thrown aside. Lucinda Rosenfeld stays focused in her new novel,I'm So Happy for You, and it pays off handsomely. The book explores a particularly rich relationship vein-the love of an Everywoman for her more beautiful, more glamorous pal.... Rosenfeld goes beyond the obvious issues of envy and the perils of vicariousness to examine a fascinating byproduct of female empathy.... Small resentments collect until one day, perhaps because of a trivial crime, they explode in a Wagnerian burst of emotion.... [A] thoroughly enjoyable and somewhat rare specimen of chick lit that stays focused on the chicks."—New York Times Book Review