08504cam a2200577 4500 233433952 TxAuBib 20150605120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307700414 0307700410 B004J4WKYW Amazon b5d82fbb-1183-4795-9e8a-090c50219aee OverDrive (Reserve ID) 209850 536999 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib CLOSE, JENNIFER. Girls in White Dresses [Libby eBook]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2279kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:Wickedly hilarious and utterly recognizable, Girls in White Dresses tells the story of three women grappling with heartbreak and career change, family pressure and new love--all while suffering through an endless round of weddings and bridal showers. Isabella, Mary, and Lauren feel like everyone they know is getting married. On Sunday after Sunday, at bridal shower after bridal shower, they coo over toasters, collect ribbons and wrapping paper, eat minuscule sandwiches and doll-sized cakes. They wear pastel dresses and drink champagne by the case, but amid the celebration these women have their own lives to contend with: Isabella is working at a mailing-list company, dizzy with the mixed signals of a boss who claims she's on a diet but has Isabella file all morning if she forgets to bring her a chocolate muffin. Mary thinks she might cry with happiness when she finally meets a nice guy who loves his mother, only to realize he'll never love Mary quite as much. And Lauren, a waitress at a Midtown bar, swears up and down she won't fall for the sleazy bartender--a promise that his dirty blond curls and perfect vodka sodas make hard to keep. With a wry sense of humor, Jennifer Close brings us through those thrilling, bewildering, what-on-earth-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life years of early adulthood. These are the years when everyone else seems to have a plan, a great job, and an appropriate boyfriend, while Isabella has a blind date with a gay man, Mary has a crush on her boss, and Lauren has a goldfish named Willard. Through boozy family holidays and disastrous ski vacations, relationships lost to politics and relationships found in pet stores, Girls in White Dresses pulls us deep inside the circle of these friends, perfectly capturing the wild frustrations and soaring joys of modern life. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Jennifer Close's The Smart One.. HTML:"Anyone who has seen The Sound of Music--that is, everyone--will likely recognize the title of Jennifer Close's Girls in White Dresses as a certain Oscar Hammerstein lyric. But given the tone and tenor of this debut novel, it shouldn't surprise that the reference isn't particularly affectionate. . . . Close, who is 32, captures the extended post-collegiate ennui associated with her generation. . . . Quite endearing.". HTML:Elysa Gardner, USA Today. HTML:"So many books aimed at 25- to 35-year-old women say they perfectly capture the angst and soaring joys of post-college life, but Girls in White Dresses truly does. Told in intersecting stories of a group of friends, Close is able to nail the complexity of the times--who to date, what job to take and what to wear to the endless weddings.". HTML:Metro News (Toronto.) "[Close] turns her wry sense of humor toward the showers, dresses and expenses, instead of the actual ceremonies. . . . Reading each story feels like catching up with an old friend. . . . Although the majority of the stories are humorous, they are never mean-spirited, and the friendships Close portrays feel incredibly realistic.". HTML:National Post. HTML:"One of the most buzzed-about reads of the summer. . . . Funny and often poignant; the tone of the book is reminiscent of Melissa Bank's popular 1999 novel The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing. . . . The vignettes of White Dresses are intricate and often absurd, yet instantly relatable.". HTML:Winnipeg Free Press. HTML:"Is this just another fluffy piece of chick lit about 20-somethings finally finding love? Not with Close's wry wit and deadpan delivery, which make this debut novel a treat to read. . . . An original confection with echoes of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and a dollop of Sex and the City.". Shelf Awareness. HTML:"[Close's characters] grumble good-naturedly through their friends' weddings and the births of their babies, supporting one another as they stumble through the minefield of rotten jobs and disastrous romances, with the pluck and gimlet eye of Carrie Bradshaw's younger, smarter sisters.". HTML:Vanity Fair. "Close straddles the line between melancholy and breeziness as she chronicles the exploits of recent college grads trying to make it in New York City . . . Hints at something deeper and truer: not just the adventure of being young, but the unmooring of it, too.". HTML:Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly. "Follows three women and peripheral friends as they alternately flounder and flourish through their 20s. Weddings provide the backdrop as the women feel their way in and out of inert relationships and crappy jobs, trying to figure out who they want to be.". HTML:The Washington Post. "Close's witty voice . . . charts the romantic shenanigans of a bevy of New York women in their 20s, before career success or Botoxed foreheads. Dating is a phenomenon to be analyzed in improvised group therapy over cocktails.". HTML:The New York Times. "This debut will ring bells. Wedding bells. . . . An uncanny portrait emerges of a time in life marked by too many hangovers, bad dates and bridal showers--as well as an abundance of solid friendships.". HTML:People. "Close's cynical humor shines. . . . Close captures that mix of perplexing anticipation, tedium, poor choices, dashed hopes and resilience that characterizes young adulthood.". HTML:The New York Journal of Books. "With a light touch and utterly believable characters, Close's . . . appealing debut manages to capture the humor, heartache and cautious optimism of her protagonists.". HTML:Kirkus Reviews. "It's a pleasure to get to know the characters and be able to leave them behind, knowing they'll keep muddling on toward some version of happiness.". HTML:The Columbus Dispatch. "You'll relate, but mostly you'll laugh as Close turns her sweet-tart wit on the dating and mating shenanigans of this tight-knit group of friends.". HTML:Redbook. "Close's sardonic, well-crafted female characters and the all-too-familiar feeling of wedding fatigue will capture a large audience.". HTML:Metro News (New York.) "[An] irresistible, pitch-perfect first novel.". HTML:Marie Claire. Humor (Fiction.) Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. 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