A Fortunate Age : A Novel (Paperback)

from Litfan

"A Fortunate Age" follows the lives of a group of college friends from the 90s, the swell and burst of the dot-com bubble, through September 11th and the aftermath. We watch the characters struggle with launching careers, relationships, and families, while trying to find their own identity in a c...

from heatherlove

The book follows a group of friends from Oberlin through the morass of their daily lives, by looking at the group of friends one at a time, one chapter at a time. The book is well-written, hence my 3-star rating, and I'm sure it has an audience but I'm not it. I pretty much hated every single cha...

from yankeesfan1

This book is a fairly good story. The characters are interesting-very realistic in the mix of flaws and good points. One issue I had with the characters was that early on, I felt like I was constantly having to check the back cover to remind myself of who was who. It gets confusing with the jumpi...

from gaby317

I enjoyed the book very much! It may be in part that I'd recently moved to NYC so the location descriptions and dialogue seemed very plausible. It is also because though my own experience is very different from that of the characters, I could relate to the various dilemmas and complicated relatio...

from whitty222

I enjoyed this book as well. Like some of the reviews, I didn't relate to the characters- my life and the people I know don't follow the same arc as the characters in the book. However, their lives were appealing in many ways. I loved the references to NYC, and it made me want to jump on a plane ...