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Sittenfeld's poignant if generic follow-up to her bestselling debut, Prep, similarly tracks a young woman's coming-of-age, but rather than navigating an elite school's nasty and brutish social system, this time the narrator contends with a dysfunctional family and her own yearnings for love. Fourteen-year-old Hannah Gavener is abruptly shipped off from Philadelphia to live with her aunt in Pittsburgh when her mercurial, vindictive father breaks up his marriage and family, which includes Hannah's older sister, Allison, and their browbeaten mother. Sweet but insecure and passive, Hannah had "been raised... not to be accommodated but to accommodate," an upbringing that hobbles all her subsequent relationships. The novel follows Hannah through her teens and late 20s (from 1991 to 2005), as she searches for romantic fulfillment, navigates friendships (e.g., with her larger-than-life cousin Fig) and alternately tries to reconcile with her father and distance herself from him. But the most influential connection Hannah makes is with her psychiatrist, Dr. Lewin, whom she begins seeing her freshman year at Tufts. Although the novel aspires to be taken seriously and Hannah is a sympathetic protagonist, she remains a textbook case of a young woman who wants "a man who will deny her. A man of her own who isn't hers."
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Sittenfeld's second novel is as sharply written as her first, Prep(2005), which chronicled one girl's experiences at an elite private high school. The heroine of her follow-up novel is Hannah Gavener, who, at age 14, is grappling with her mother's decision to stand up to her controlling father. The storyline follows Hannah through college and afterwards as she tries to find the kind of romance she believes she's looking for. Her glamorous, beautiful cousin, Fig, never seems to have trouble finding guys, and it is one of Fig's on-again, off-again boyfriends, Henry, who captivates Hannah and becomes her ideal. She goes through two boyfriends--one who is smitten with her, and one who isn't able to stay faithful--before deciding to pursue Henry and find out if he really does hold the key to her happiness. As is often the case in life, things don't work out quite according to plan, and the result is a novel that rings completely true. The magic of this coming-of-age tale lies in how it captures a generation of young women's anxiety and confusion about finding love and direction in their lives. Kristine Huntley
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4.0étoiles sur 5 The tragedy of unfounded hopes, Nov. 8 2008
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Although The Man of My Dreams is a really banal title, the concerns of the novel it represents are at times profound. But then its author, Curtis Sittenfeld, is such a contrarian writer that quite possibly she wanted the title to cut both ways: on the one hand to be seen as ironic, but on the other to be seen as so wildly hopeful that both her fans and her new readers would immediately know that if ironies follow sorrow, then hopes (and above all unfounded hopes) precede it.

Sittenfeld's novel is certainly all about unfounded hopes, and for her protagonist, Hannah Gavener, the man of her dreams is Henry, a former boyfriend of Hannah's beautiful cousin Fig. Sittenfeld astutely captures Hannah's long adoration of Henry as well as Henry's alternating layers of uncanny emotional awareness and casual dishonesty. But Henry could also be what Hannah has always most truly desired: "a man who will deny her; a man of her own who isn't hers."

The man of Fig's dreams is a man we never meet, we only see her planning to fly out to California to spend time with him, and in a much later chapter we see her reveal two things that startle Hannah: (1) that she no longer remembers this man; not his name, not his profession, not anything about him, and (2) after years of being the object of stunned worship from multitudes of men, Fig has fallen in love with a woman.

But this novel suffers a kind of death when it's reduced to a story line; the real news about Sittenfeld is that she is such an honest and usefully detached writer that it can be an extreme pleasure reading her dissections of sex, first sex, humiliation, resentment, wistful envy, rueful ire, and the formal surprises that come with forgiveness.

She also writes more perceptively about adolescent sexual shyness than any other novelist I've ever read, accurately conveying all the ways it makes a certain kind of anxious and inhibited young woman (in this case Hannah) grab apprehensive control of sexual situations, even though she's so inexperienced that she imagines she's being considerate rather than withholding when she's in bed with her mystified boyfriends.

In this sense, Hannah resembles Lee Fiora in Sittenfeld's first novel, Prep. They are also both fourteen years old at the beginnings of their respective novels, but while Lee's story covers four years at an elite New England prep school, Hannah quickly grows older, goes to university, goes to work, moves from city to city.

The Man of My Dreams also aims to have a wider and deeper social resonance than Prep in the sense that it is bookended by two narratives concerning tragically afflicted male children. In the first chapter we meet Rory, an eight-year-old cousin of Hannah's who has Down's Syndrome. In the final chapter, set in New Mexico, Hannah is teaching at a school for autistic boys, news that we learn from a letter she writes to her former psychiatrist. This letter ends the novel and feels too rushed and convenient a way to respond to too many unanswered questions.

But in spite of the shortcomings of this final letter as well as an opening paragraph that comes across as boring chick lit (it begins the novel with the words "Julia Roberts is getting married..." then a few lines later tells us that the bridesmaids' shoes are "Manolo Blahnik, $475 a pair")--The Man of My Dreams soon begins to move much more swiftly than Prep did. It also feels looser, bolder, less claustrophobic and so, inevitably, more free. There are also more scenes set in the open air, and these scenes are the most alive and memorable sequences in the book.

Hannah's trip to Alaska with her sister Allison, Allison's boyfriend, and the boyfriend's "alarmingly handsome" and unbearable older brother is the best chapter of all, giving Sittenfeld the chance to brilliantly catch what's most socially awkward, unbearably damp, openly hostile, and truly catastrophic about camping in the wild.

There's also a great scene where Hannah gazes at a glacier from a boat sailing on Prince William Sound and realizes that she has always imagined a glacier as "clear and glittery and neatly edged, like an oversize ice cube from a tray, but this is more like a field of ruffled, dirty snow. It has a blue tint, as if squirted with Windex."

Whether Sittenfeld means for the glacier to be a defiled image of our ruined world or a metaphor for the difference between what's romanticized and what's real, it works spookily well in this novel. As does the scene, a few days later, when Hannah loses her glasses in the middle of a drenching Alaskan downpour. Her glasses are never found, but for a long time after her return home she sometimes pictures them on the floor of the North Pacific. "It is dark and calm down there; fish slip past; her glasses rest untouched, the clear plastic lenses and titanium frames. In the stillness without her, the glasses see and see."

Those lost glasses could very well also symbolize Hannah herself, ardent about love although too often asexual about sex, a woman whose detachment (so like the inspired detachment of her creator) also allows her to see and see.
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