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Gossip: A Novel (Hardcover)

by Kelly Lange (Author)
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A dubious mixture of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and Nancy Drew on Campus, TV anchor Lange's second novel (after Trophy Wife) has all the emotional nourishment of a sound bite. When, in the prologue, Trisha, Lane, Kate and Molly graduate with Briarwood College's Class of 1979, Trisha's dad gives each of them a new gizmo called a telephone answering machine so they can stay in touch no matter where life takes them. Now it's 1998, and the messages fly fast and thick across the country. Lane and Kate are in California: Lane selling antiques and happily married to the police chief of Carmel-by-the-Sea, and Kate in L.A. miserably mated to international gallery owner and pond-scum supreme Austin Feruzzi. Trisha and Molly are uptown and downtown New York?Trisha with a successful radio talk show and a delightful millionaire husband, and Molly with unfulfilled artistic longings and, uh-oh, Kate's husband as her Svengali lover. The phone messages?which go on long enough to exhaust most tapes?are salted with brand names ("Miss Adams, this is Belinda Williams at the Emporio Armani on Fifth Avenue"; "Katie, hi, it's Lane. I'm in my Explorer and heading to Los Angeles"). Since every major character expressly wishes wife-battering, philandering, art-forging, jewel-smuggling Austin Feruzzi dead, it won't spoil the suspense to reveal that he is murdered. The intrepid four bring the killer to a kind of justice in a bloody scene that lets Molly redeem herself and makes way for a happy ending. Lange is certainly au courant, but, alas, readers will want to switch channels halfway through.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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This critically acclaimed debut that established Kelly Lange as a sensational new voice in women's commercial fiction, offers another smart, breezy novel to rival the masters of the genre.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I give this book 5 big stars.............., Sep 10 1999
By Janstod@aol.com (Arlington Heights, Illinois) - See all my reviews
I just finished reading GOSSIP and found the book to be so entertaining that it was hard to put it down. I have spent some time in Carmel so was able to relate to the area of California that she mentioned throughout the book. I liked the life time friendship of the four girls and the experiences they shared through the good and bad. I look forward to reading TROPHY WIFE as soon as I can. I am certainly going to recommend this book to others.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Only wish I could have given it 0 stars..., Dec 22 1998
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Although I was somewhat entertained during the first 2-3 pages, throughout the rest of the book I felt an overwhelming urge to inform Ms. Lange that a.) less is more when it comes to "educating" your audience about the lifestyles of the rich & famous living in New York and L.A.; b.) you do not need to leave "clues" and "cliffhangers" at every turn; and c.) no one in the real world leaves messages on answering machines even remotely resembling those left by Trisha, Molly, Kate, and Lane, the ever-so-exhausting-to-read-about main characters in "Gossip." I understand that this is a work of fiction. I also understand that the author is entitled to portray and describe locations and characters in any way she sees fit in order to tell her tale. However, one cliched description after another, conversations that are so inane and melodramatic that they make even "Gone With the Wind" look subtle, and tedious stereotypes about starving and/or self-destructive artists, cut-throat gallery owners, has-been athletic stars, and poor little rich girls were enough to make me alternate between nausea and derision. The only thing that allowed me to finish the book was my hope that SOMEWHERE in the ending I would find redemption -- unfortunately, I had predicted the ending chapters ago -- and the knowledge that at least I didn't buy it.

But I certainly feel sorry for the library from which I borrowed it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Another bestseller, Aug 23 1998
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The four of them became close friends in the late seventies when they all were undergraduates attending the Briarwood College for Women in Pennsylvania. The school was an exclusive college for daughters of the wealthy and famous, especially the filthy rich with an occasional scholarship tossed to some ingrate. After graduating together in the class of '79, they kept in touch. In fact, over the next two decades, as their careers and new families form, they constantly meet to share the latest GOSSIP.

Patricia "Trisha" Collins Newman (nee of the Philadelphia Collins and married to the business mogul Peter Newman), is a radio show host. Lane Hurley (of the Boston Hurleys) is the owner of an expensive antique shop. Katherine Spenser Feruzzi (yes- of the New York Spensers) is married to Austin, an abusive spouse, who hapens to be an art dealer. Molly Adams (of the scholarship Adams) is a wannabe artist, who works for Katherine's husband. The GOSSIP at this latest get-together centers around Katherine finally leaving Austin, who has recently increased the number of beatings he gave his wife. However, everything changes when Austin is murdered and his relationship with Katherine becomes the nation's gossip.

GOSSIP is wonderful modern work of contemporary women's fiction that will thrill fans of the genre. All four women are witty and charming in different ways as they confront various issues facing the American female in the late nineties. Kelly Lange, who has already made heavy medal noise with her previous brilliant work, TROPHY WIFE, comes ever closer to reaching the top rung where the queens of this genre reside. This is a novel that fans of women fiction will devour.

Harriet Klausner

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