Beautiful Bodies : A Novel

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Summary: Can't say enough good about it....
Review: Best of all summer reads. Engaging. Moments of laugh out loud funny. Her characters truly take on life of their own. LOVED IT.
Highest of all recommendations.

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Summary: Sensational Sensitive sexy
Review: I admit I thought the title a bit bold...but it suits the story if you read it. You will NOT be able to stop reading this. I read it in the bathtub, in bed, while eating and on the bus. A must. Real sex, real wit, and real heartbreak for real women. Not a phony line or scene in the work. I identify!

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Summary: A true Sex and the City novel
Review: This novel was quite a surprise. I had been disappointed all summer by recommended novels focusing on women that didn't deliver but this one truly did. The characters have surprising depth for a book that chooses to focus on six different individuals. It is very difficult to put this book down as you are driven to find out what each women is hiding yet wishes to reveal. The novel is reminiscent of "Sex and the City" but with more depth and genuine feeling. And a little more realistic view of life in the Big Apple.

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Summary: More, please! Best novel ever for women
Review: Wow is the word. This woman can write. This is beautiful and true, to the last detail. I felt so close to several of the characters, it was almost eerie. The delicacy of the feelings, the heartbreak is exquisite, yet I laughed more than cried. My favorite character is Nina, who is all heart. She can't help loving, and neither can I. I also have a mother who is senile, and I like to have quick affairs to renew my sense of pleasure, even if the men hurt my feelings afterward... "Is there any sound as loud as a zipper on it's way up? They slide down silently enough but what a racket on the return trip." She likes her babies six feet tall, and so do I!

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Summary: Excellent! I want to be invited to the party!! Well maybe.
Review: This is an excellent novel. I loved every minute of it. It is the tale of a dinner party of a somewhat dysfunctional group of friends. I love how the beginning chapters focus on one character at a time...then when it comes time for the dinner party, it all comes together. Reading stories about women, their struggles, and their day to day lives makes me feel like I am not alone in the world...and I had a constant companion with this book. I did not want it to end. Can't wait to read future novels from this author.

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Summary: Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful -- luminous prose
Review: It's rare to find a sexually frank book with the poetic and social insights that this unusual first novel offers. I know the writer well through her memoirs, Sleeping Arrangements and A Place in the Country, and am so excited that this novel surpasses even those marvelous autobiographiocal accounts. The "beautiful bodies" are complete, real women, not tinny stereotypes. Their dreams and complicated relationships with one another, men and the city, make for luminous prose, insomniac nights. Heaven!

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Summary: Best Book for a BEST FRIEND
Review: Never, ever have I read a book so absolutely and deliciously truthful re. women's friendships...It's all here, wicked zingers but somehow not bitchy, love with men, reported to women...The greatest gab fest, with a wild finale! Grab it, Trade it, read it again and hope for a sequel. Did NOT ever want this one to end!

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Summary: Ecstasy ...didn't want it to end!
Review: Dear readers, reading this book is almost as good as having a new love affair, a party, and your five best friends to tell the details! Reality but somehow it's hilarious. CRACKED UP!

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Summary: Beautiful story and characters-- a must read!
Review: If you read no other book this summer, snatch this one -- Beautiful Bodies is populated with savvy, sexy women who maneuver in today's asphalt jungle. New York has never been depicted better, with its great strengths and weaknesses showing...The women are heartbreaking, yet hilariously fun to be with...The dialogue is outrageous and brilliantly apropos to how we live now. they show different sides of feminity -- the girl who takes care of her mother, the journalist who gets the story, the actress who catches her husband with a lover, and that real estate maven who wants more than her 10 room penthouse. the restaurant spoof is a scream -- Vert where all the food is green.

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Summary: a 10 star rave for beauteous writing
Review: Wow...I started hearing that this book was the best and it is. I read it in two days. Wish there was a sequel. I liked the women so much, especially the one who finds a lover after 3 years of doing without. I wept. And same for Nina who is taking care of her dying mother...the others made me laugh hysterically...especially the one who wears endangered species and eats at restaurants that charge $200 prix fixe. Her nose job and liposuction...it's so hilarious -- She fixes everything by finding people apartments. This is the ultimate girlfriend book.