- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; New edition edition (July 1 1986)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0340230304
- ISBN-13: 978-0340230305
- Shipping Weight: 503 g
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4.9 out of 5 stars (7 customer reviews)
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Even more amazing after all these years., Feb 17 2008
By Just_Karen - Published on Amazon.com
I went hunting for this book after I read The Girls by Lori Hanssen, also about conjoined twins. I almost couldn't find it! I knew it was by one of the important women who wrote in the seventies, but which one? Marilyn French? Lois Gould? Not Erica Jong, it was too good to be by Erica Jong. I finally hit on "whoever it was who wrote Looking for Mr. Goodbar." Yup, Judith Rossner.Nadine, the narrator, craves attachment as a result of being raised by sort of archetypically disattached California parents. Her neurotic, hectic account of her youth is shot through with her obsessive interest in the Smith Boys, handsome young Amos and Eddie, who live a life of biologically enforced togetherness in the suburb nearest hers. Spying leads to meeting, meeting leads to mating, and soon she has convinced her best friend to join her and the twins in a very unusual marriage.
None of the characters would be particularly easy to like, except for the deeply affectionate irony Nadine uses to tell the story (in first person, a POV that works beautifully in this). She is aware of how ridiculous this situation is, and her humorous eye turned to this coupling of four is just hilarious, even though some of the subject matter is painful. Taking place mostly in the sixties and early seventies, the immediacy and relevance of the story amazes me. We still are drawn to what's freakish, and we all still have to figure out who we are.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Turbulent Imagination, April 7 2000
By "ads46" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Attachments (Hardcover)
Judith Rossner is one of my absolute favorite authors and part of her talent is an incredible scope of imagination. This book is about a woman who falls in love with a siamese twin--at the beginning she is 9 months pregnant, has gained 75 pounds and is over 6 feet and her husband and his friends catch her doing housework in the nude and horror flickers across their faces so that she realizes she can't stay there with her husband any longer and hops on the back of a much younger man-stranger's Harley Davidson--sounds way too bizarre to connect with and yet that is the power of Rossner--she has such a deep level of understanding of the human condition that the weird circumstances and events soon become things we don't even question because the characters are so well drawn and complex and believable. If you can get your hands on this book do--my 3 favorite Rossners are this, Emmeline, and Looking for Mr. Goodbar--all so vastly different you would not even believe one woman could have such breadth of skill and yet she does.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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REMARKABLE, OUTRAGEOUS, FASCINATING!, Jun 29 2002
By LUV TO READ "LORRAINE" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Attachments (Hardcover)
I have read most of this author's books, but just now read this one which is one of her older novels and I loved it.....Nadine and Dianne are close friends even though they are opposites. After disatrous first marriages, they marry siamese twins, Eddie and Amos....They move to a small New Hampshire town to raise their children......."Attachments" is really the story of a woman (Nadine) whose dreams and hungers are satisfied in strange, fascinating ways.....This book is well written (as are all of Judith Rossner's books) and keeps your interest to the end.
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