- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: North Point Pr (September 1989)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0865473935
- ISBN-13: 978-0865473935
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 567 g
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From Publishers Weekly
Zeidner's sprightly, intelligent and witty third novel (after Alexandra Freed ) confirms her talent. Set in an accurately evoked Philadelphia and covering a one-year span in the lives of lovers Malcolm De Witt and Nora Worth, it chronicles the vicissitudes of their relationship and at the same time paints a perceptive picture of life among downwardly mobile yuppies--those who are entitled to the designation by virtue of social class and education, but who earn too little money to live its lifestyle. Malcolm is a sporadically employed architectural designer who has already failed at other careers and seems fated "to take artistic escalators in the wrong direction." Nora, who has abandoned her aspiration to be an artist, works as a TV food stylist and designs costumes for TV ads. The precarious state of his finances makes passive, reclusive Malcolm surly and unready for marriage, while perpetually hyper Nora nags him to tie the knot. As concern over money exacerbates their conflicts and perhaps indicates terminal incompatibility, Nora is tempted by a old flame and Malcolm yearns for the IRS agent who is investigating his failure to pay taxes. A mysterious $30,000 that suddenly appears in Nora's bank account only adds to the tension. Zeidner has a keen eye for modern lifestyles, and her dialogue is sharp and true, especially when the lovers bicker. If her characters are sometimes too flaky to be entirely appealing, they are rendered with admirable fidelity.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Dynamic and interesting but not always appetizing., Jan 24 2007
By Ivy "nonfiction specialist" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Limited Partnerships: A Novel (Hardcover)
You have to give Zeidner credit for how very different this book is from her close to bestseller Layover. Although there is one similar focus- how to con the system, either purposefully or "accidentally" (in Layover, it's hotel rooms, in Limited Partnerships it's banks...) the style is VERY different. More detailed, less first-person narration, more intertwined weaved in subplots. I have to wonder if the clunky name of this book isn't what kept people from buying more copies. In any case, it reminded me a bit stylistically of the author of "Virgin Suicides" and "Middlesex."My complaints?
1) Overall, it needed a more romantic tone. The dry humor doesn't work so well in this book- it makes the characters lives seem unimportant.
2) The characters themselves came across as tacky.
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