Pre-Owned Among the Ten Thousand Things (Paperback) by Julia Pierpont

from CarrieWuj

One of the blurbs on the cover calls this book "funny" but I saw it more as tragic. It has the 21st century satirical detachment that notes the absurdity of situations, but still it read more sad than anything. Deb's marriage to artist Jack Shanley is falling apart. He has cheated on her, again, ...

from jennyo

Full disclosure: I got a copy of this book as part of the Early Reviewer program. You know how sometimes you read a blurb on the back of the book and you think, "Okay, I'll probably really like this book if so-and-so has that to say about it," and then you read the book yourself and think, "I'm p...

from westcott

I liked the premise of the book: A philandering husband's mistress sends a box of evidence of the affair to the man's wife, only to have it intercepted by the man's children. It also contains many very well drawn scenes. Much of the writing in this book could have been part of a very good book. H...

from W.MdO

New York City creative types have nuclear family that is disrupted by the father's infidelity. You would think there would be more fireworks that follow (yes, there is an explosion, but it's not the same thing) but what really happens is a lot of a little. A little running away to the beach here,...

from Jonri

Overall, I enjoyed this book. The story is about the disintegration of a family. The parents are Jack Shanley, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and a successful NYC artist, his wife Deborah, a former member of the corps at the City Ballet, and their two children, fifteen year old S...