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Prospect Park West: A Novel
by Amy Sohn
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Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN13: 9781416577638
Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
Notes:
BROOKLYN'S FAMED PARK SLOPE neighborhood has it all: sprawling, majestic Prospect Park; acclaimed public schools; historic brownstones; and progressive values. Among bohemian bourgeois breeders, claiming a stake in Park Slope has become a competitive sport.In the park, at the coffee shops, and on the playgrounds of the neighborhood, four women's lives come together during one long, hot Brooklyn summer. Melora Leigh, a two-time Oscar-winning actress, frustrated with her career and the pressures of raising her adopted toddler, feels the seductive pull of kleptomania; Rebecca Rose, missing the robust sex life of her pre-motherhood days, begins a dangerous flirtation with a handsome neighborhood celebrity; Lizzie O'Donnell, a former lesbian (or "hasbian"), wonders why she is still drawn to women in spite of her sexy husband and adorable baby; and Karen Bryan Shapiro finds herself consumed by two powerful obsessions: her four-year-old son's well-being and snagging the ultimate three-bedroom apartment in a wellmaintained, P.S. 321-zoned co-op building. As the women's paths intertwine (and sometimes collide), each must struggle to keep her man, her sanity...and her playdates. From the perennially hot author and columnist Amy Sohn comes a smart, sexy, satirical peek into the bedrooms and hearts of Prospect Park West.
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| I'm still in disbelief! |
| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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Don't even ask me while I stuck it out till the end of this book! Maybe I kept hoping something would get better. Total waste of time - Confusing, choppy, too many characters to keep track of and the way they kept popping up in other chapters was the ultimate confusion! And the ending! What ending??? Are you kidding me? How was this book published? Didn't anyone edit it?? So disappointing!
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| Good Read |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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I enjoyed this book-I thought the characters and plot were interesting.
It is about four woman raising children in Manhattan
Academy Award Winning Actress Melora Leah is raising her adopted son Orion with her husband Stuart Ashby. She finds being a mother stressful though and while at a co-op she steals a wallet for the high after stopping her medicine.
Rachel is the mother of a year and a half old daughter. She however is very unsatisfied with her marriage. She and her husband have not had sex since before their daughter was born. While working at the Co-Op she helps Stuart Ashby the ropes and soon begins an affair with him leading to her getting pregnant.
Karen lives not to far from Prospect Park West and wants an in. There is an apartment for sale in the complex that Rachel lives in and Karen and her husband are interested in getting it. During this time Karen meets Orion Leah-Ashby while he is out with his nanny. Orion and Karen's son become friends. Karen finds a way to get into the Leah-Ashby home and goes into the master bedroom where she finds the wallet Melora stole-which leads to Karen blackmailing Melora into friendship. Karen wants to have another baby also, and she cant help but wonder if one of the reasons why she is having problems is because she once got pregnant by a Haitian boy in her class named Jean who was in the Orchestra, and ended up having an abortion.
Lizzie is a Caucasian woman married to African-American Jay and is the mother of a year and a half son named Mance. She meets Rachel at a playground and becomes friends with her. Lizzie used to be a lesbian and calls herself a hasbian now. She tells this to Rachel and Rachel kisses her. This leads Lizzie to think that Rachel is interested in her. Lizzie also makes friends with Karen when it is discovered Jean and Jay are the same person.
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| Annoying |
| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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This feels like a cheap One Fifth Ave rip off, and I thought that book was mediocre at best, so this one is even worse. I find it very annoying and oddly creepy when a writer uses real celebrities in a work of fiction. If you are so creative as to write a novel, make up characters, rather than peppering your story with tidbits out of entertainment tabloids. Base them on real people if you must, but at least give make them your own somehow.
Not recommended.
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| Don't Bother... |
| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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Awful, terrible. The most recent reviewer has it right -- if you don't live in or near this area, then why care? These characters are one-diminsional, whiny, boring, ungrateful women. As a mother, I can't relate to any of them. It was almost insulting to read about them and their "issues". There were too many characters to keep up with, therefore limiting the likeability, credibility of any of them.
Another annoying thing about the book, the author was quite fond of name-dropping stars (she must be friends with or really admires Maggie Gyllenhaal).
Additionally, what was with the two pages of italics here and there? The man dying on the bike, the other getting robbed? Was that just a random look into the everyday life of Brooklyn??
I finished it just because I was hoping there was a shred of something likeable near the end... but, no. It ended worse.
Thankfully, I checked this book out at the library.
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| A guilty pleasure beach read |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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This was a good book to keep oneself occupied for a couple of days. I thought that the story was tollerable but kept waiting for the moment that all of the different mother's storylines would come together. I feel as if the book was just sort of cut off and would have liked to see it continue and read what happened to everyone. This book wasn't much wasn't so much of a riviting page turner or political commentary on life but I found it to be on of those guiltly pleasure reads.
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