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Auteur van Tales From a Broad: An Unreliable Memoir
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TALES FROM A BROAD: AN UNRELIABLE MEMOIR.
A New York chick turns expat in Singapore. What sounds like it could be an interesting study in cultures (especially American-when-faced-with-new-strange-things culture), but sadly, this book stopped two steps before it could deliver. I was hoping for a more real approach (and by that, I mean a better fictionalisation). Overall, this book made me think "Where are you going to take this?" Still, it had some good bits and pieces in it, and I enjoyed some of the scenes
½Okay, I bought this one on the strength of two things: some quotes by Lebowitz I've seen in books of humourous quotes, and the blurbs for it. Well, three things - boredom was a factor. I started reading it last night, and I don't think it'll be finishing it.
This is probably less a failing on the part of the writer as a complete lack of sympathy between myself and herself. I'm not a neurotic New Yorker, a mother of two, a wife of a copyright lawyer, or a literary agent, and I therefore have very little in common with the main character of the book. What I've read of the book so far doesn't exactly endear her to me, and it renders the book boring. I'm not really a fan of travelogues in the first place, unless they're funny. Neither am I a fan of books about the joys of raising children, since I don't have any myself, or plan to have any. The book failed to catch me in the first few chapters (each of the individual chapters is very short, about five pages maximum) and I don't think I'll be reading any further unless I get very bored indeed.
ISBN: 1-86325-424-2
Publisher's Blurb:"I can see my glass is half full... but, of course, I did order a double."
When a frazzled New Yorker who is mad, bad and dangerous to know lands in Asia, life is never quite the same again - for anyone...
Fran Lebowitz cheerfully admits that she is intergalactically self-absorbed, a little crazy and really, really hard to please - just ask her eternally patient and bemused husband, Frank. But when her life in the fast land falls apart - again - it's time for a miracle. Reeling from the worst week of her life, topped off by her most important client stabbing her in the back, Fran realises that she's almost forgotten what her family looks like. She wants out of the rat race and her hectic life as a literary agent - and time to be herself, a real wife and mother to her two small children.
Good old Frank delivers what seems the answer to her prayers - to escape for three months to Singapore while he does some business. But what starts out as a little break and a very big culture shock for all concerned marks the hilarious beginning of the end of the old Fran - and a whole new life.
This is unreliable memoir at its best, drawn from the real life of one Fran Lebowitz, a broad who really knows how to grab life by the scruff of the neck. There's a little bit of fiction and a lot of fact, but if you're thinking of adopting Frank, be warned - he's very real and Fran doesn't like to share.… (meer)
This is probably less a failing on the part of the writer as a complete lack of sympathy between myself and herself. I'm not a neurotic New Yorker, a mother of two, a wife of a copyright lawyer, or a literary agent, and I therefore have very little in common with the main character of the book. What I've read of the book so far doesn't exactly endear her to me, and it renders the book boring. I'm not really a fan of travelogues in the first place, unless they're funny. Neither am I a fan of books about the joys of raising children, since I don't have any myself, or plan to have any. The book failed to catch me in the first few chapters (each of the individual chapters is very short, about five pages maximum) and I don't think I'll be reading any further unless I get very bored indeed.
ISBN: 1-86325-424-2
Publisher's Blurb:"I can see my glass is half full... but, of course, I did order a double."
When a frazzled New Yorker who is mad, bad and dangerous to know lands in Asia, life is never quite the same again - for anyone...
Fran Lebowitz cheerfully admits that she is intergalactically self-absorbed, a little crazy and really, really hard to please - just ask her eternally patient and bemused husband, Frank. But when her life in the fast land falls apart - again - it's time for a miracle. Reeling from the worst week of her life, topped off by her most important client stabbing her in the back, Fran realises that she's almost forgotten what her family looks like. She wants out of the rat race and her hectic life as a literary agent - and time to be herself, a real wife and mother to her two small children.
Good old Frank delivers what seems the answer to her prayers - to escape for three months to Singapore while he does some business. But what starts out as a little break and a very big culture shock for all concerned marks the hilarious beginning of the end of the old Fran - and a whole new life.
This is unreliable memoir at its best, drawn from the real life of one Fran Lebowitz, a broad who really knows how to grab life by the scruff of the neck. There's a little bit of fiction and a lot of fact, but if you're thinking of adopting Frank, be warned - he's very real and Fran doesn't like to share.… (meer)
A New York chick turns expat in Singapore. What sounds like it could be an interesting study in cultures (especially American-when-faced-with-new-strange-things culture), but sadly, this book stopped two steps before it could deliver. I was hoping for a more real approach (and by that, I mean a better fictionalisation). Overall, this book made me think "Where are you going to take this?" Still, it had some good bits and pieces in it, and I enjoyed some of the scenes
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