- Hardcover: 175 pages
- Publisher: Knopf; First Edition edition (Aug 12 1986)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0394553101
- ISBN-13: 978-0394553108
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 15 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
To be blonde and beautiful and stupendously bright, to be carefree and in love, is every woman's dream; to be kind and giving into the bargain, may be her undoing. Young editor Frances Girard lives in an elegant apartment at the top of a handsome Manhattan brownstone, whose owner Madeline demands, besides the rent, backrubs and tea and sympathy, especially now when she is in thrall to Paul Treat, the director whose play she is financing. After he meets Frances, Paul very soon is making journeys upstairs, a situation that Frances can't stand and Madeline won't stand for. Frances moves out of the brownstone and into Paul's loft, where she serves as handmaiden, fall-girl and brunt-bearer to Paul and his hypochondria and mercurial moods, and eventually breadwinner until his latest play finds a backer. Frances rebels and the lovers part, but a reconciliation ends this sparkling romantic comedy. Comparable to Laurie Colwin's best work, this is a provocative mood change from Arensberg's stunning first novel, Sister Wolf.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Arensberg, whose Sister Wolf ( LJ 9/15/80) won the American Book Award for Best First Novel in 1981, has written a second novela "romantic comedy"part of which first appeared as a short story in the O. Henry Prize Collection of 1980. Her heroine, Frances Girard, is unqualifiedly a downtrodden doormat. Everyone takes advantage of Frances, not least her lover, Paul Treat, avant-garde theater director. Arensberg details their affair with humor and insight, but they remain essentially types: the unfailingly giving woman, the blindly taking man. It is not Paul's violation of her personality that finally makes Frances rebel but his sexual infidelity. Like all romantic comedies this one ends happily. For all its sophisticated wit and telling detail, the novel remains only clever, and like a conversation that drones on long after the point is made, becomes slightly boring. Marcia Tager, Tenafly, N.J.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Needs new title....,
By EasyReader Jr. "EasyReader Jr." (Pleasanton, CA United States) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: Group Sex (Paperback)
I have to agree with the previous reader's review. This was book was somewhat disappointing for several reasons. One, this book was not about "Group Sex" at all. Group sex was only part of a group conversation that took place on one evening of the entire book! I can't help but to wonder if the author used the title to attract 'would-be' readers... Second, most of the secondary characters in the book were extremely bland and boring, but I believe that may have been the author's intention to emphasize the life of the main character, Frances. Third, the reader may or may not understand why Frances would stay in a topsy-turvy relationship with Paul Treat, a theatre playwright, and the reader may grasp this in the very ending of the book where Frances finally voices her desires.
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Ce commentaire est de: Group Sex (Paperback)
Having been introduced to Arensburg's work through the magnificent "Incubus," I was a little disappointed with "Group Sex." A truly disturbing tale of a young editor and her love (?) affair with a theatre director.Although I finished the book in the matter or two days, it was an uncomfortable read. The main character allows her lover to completely reform her, pulling her in and out of distorted shapes. The main character is uncomfortable with her lover through most of the novel, and the reader senses this. Because I think Arensburg is a gifted and talented writer, I cannot completely malign the book. "Group Sex" is a quick read, and an engaging one, although a bit disturbing for this reader.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Needs new title....,
By EasyReader Jr. "EasyReader Jr." - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Group Sex (Paperback)
I have to agree with the previous reader's review. This was book was somewhat disappointing for several reasons. One, this book was not about "Group Sex" at all. Group sex was only part of a group conversation that took place on one evening of the entire book! I can't help but to wonder if the author used the title to attract 'would-be' readers... Second, most of the secondary characters in the book were extremely bland and boring, but I believe that may have been the author's intention to emphasize the life of the main character, Frances. Third, the reader may or may not understand why Frances would stay in a topsy-turvy relationship with Paul Treat, a theatre playwright, and the reader may grasp this in the very ending of the book where Frances finally voices her desires.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Uncomfortable,
By Molly M. Wolf - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Group Sex (Paperback)
Having been introduced to Arensburg's work through the magnificent "Incubus," I was a little disappointed with "Group Sex." A truly disturbing tale of a young editor and her love (?) affair with a theatre director.Although I finished the book in the matter or two days, it was an uncomfortable read. The main character allows her lover to completely reform her, pulling her in and out of distorted shapes. The main character is uncomfortable with her lover through most of the novel, and the reader senses this. Because I think Arensburg is a gifted and talented writer, I cannot completely malign the book. "Group Sex" is a quick read, and an engaging one, although a bit disturbing for this reader. |
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