The Same sweet girls

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For 30 years, six Southern college friends—the Same Sweet Girls—have been gathering for a biannual reunion. As Kings wry, touching novel begins, the girls are nearing 50 and coming to terms with the life decisions theyve made. Corrine Cooper gains renown as a folk artist, but battles clinical depression with the help of a manipulative psychiatrist who later becomes her husband; Lanier Brewer is separated after a brief, ill-advised fling; exotic Astor Deveaux, a former Broadway dancer, flirts wildly with men but remains with her husband, a famous painter 33 years her senior; Julia Dupont is trapped in a passionless marriage and an overscheduled life as Alabamas first lady; Byrd and Rosanelle round out the group. When one of the SSGs becomes terminally ill, the remaining friends are spurred to resolve their own problems before she dies. Corinne, Julia and Lanier rotate as first-person narrators, but King (The Sunday Wife) does little to distinguish their voices, and the parade of characters and stories can be hard to follow at first. Once the names fall into place, however, the storys gentle Southern humor and warmth shine. It isnt all iced tea and tomato pie—King tackles some troubling issues—but the characters are true to life, and readers will sympathize with their struggles.

Książka "The Same sweet girls" - Cassandra King - oprawa miękka - Wydawnictwo Hyperion. Książka posiada 544 stron i została wydana w 2005 r.