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| ISBN: | 9780991778 |
| Edition Language: | English |
Helen Argiro
Paperback | Pages: 255 pages Rating: 3.43 | 90 Users | 24 Reviews
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| Title | : | Tales of Sex & Suburban Lunacy |
| Author | : | Helen Argiro |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | 1st |
| Pages | : | Pages: 255 pages |
| Published | : | February 8th 2013 by Women's Free Press (first published February 6th 2013) |
| Categories | : | Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Fiction. Short Stories |
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Tales of Sex & Suburban Lunacy picks up where the fairytale ends and the “…ever-after” begins.In an affluent town just north of Toronto a different kind of suburbanite has emerged. Well educated successful Gen X-ers with a misguided sense of entitlement, an insatiable appetite for luxury goods and a set of lifestyle choices that includes everything from Dr. Bernstein diets and recreational drug misuse, to the bizarre antics of the sexually deviant and scandalously promiscuous.
And in the mix of dating, mating and moral dysfunction you’ll meet characters like Nina, forty-four, the divorced mother
of twins who accidentally stumbles from one mortifying encounter to another in an effort to end a two-year long sexual drought. Madeline, fifty-two, single and stuck in online dating purgatory with a collection of horror stories acquired during her quest to find true love and join the ranks of the married middle-class. Jeannie, a forty-year-old TV producer and single mom with a gifted son, a sexy sadistic lawyer for an ex-husband and a gynecologist that is convinced Jeannie is a closet lesbian.
So welcome to a place where illicit sex is plentiful, romantic love is as elusive as smoke, and where life is part comedy of communal errors and part tragic milieu of the corrosively ambitious. Welcome to the suburbs!
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Ratings: 3.43 From 90 Users | 24 ReviewsComment On Of Books Tales of Sex & Suburban Lunacy
Eleven of us read this for our book club and we all LOVED it!!! Very funny stories and amusing characters in a rather dark unexpected kind of way. Short stories (some are connected) with characters (some reappearing) as real and flawed as we all are. Excellent book club selection. We had a real hoot discussing this book and its close proximity and revelations to real life.I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Extremely cutting and very funny. I've never read anything like this, it's a combination of ChickLit/Satire/Humour with a terrific bunch of connected stories and recurring characters. Nothing is sacred here. Everything including sex, marriage, divorce, neighbours, online dating, you name it and it's all up for skewering. At times the sex can be quite graphic (so not for the faint of heart), but it's always for comic effect and quite hilarious in the end. Someone
Tales of sex & suburban lunacy was with its stories like a great bag of pick a mix, so many flavours.Never knew what next chapter was gonna taste like.It wasn't difficult to relate to these stories and if it wasn't Toronto it could have been London or any other suburb with its divorcees,middle-aged men or upcoming actors.Hilarious and thought provoking at the same time, it felt like i was there.
First, I wanted to thank Goodreads & Women's Free Press for the Advance Reading Copy signed by Helen Argiro. I thought this book was funny & creative. I could relate to several of the different stories. I liked how I wasn't sure where each chapter was going. I had a little trouble following the few main character's personal stories due to the jumping around of their friends stories. Other than that I really enjoyed this book. I think Helen Argiro did a wonderful job with her 1st book. I
I wish Goodreads offered a "I chose to stop reading this book" button in addition to the "Im finished" button. I stopped halfway through. I thought this book would be quirky, witty, a bit sexy, funny, etc, etc. It was none of the above. It was not written in a witty or interesting way. That would have at least made the short stories a bit better. Some stories were two pages long about nothing and I was like wait, was that a story? Did that have a point? Most of the stories were flat, depressing,
*Copy provided by author in exchange for honest review*Wow, I really didn't expect to like this book so much. You know that feeling when you start reading a debut and pray to God it won't be a waste of your time? To be honest, I feel slightly nervous each time I pick a book by an author my friends or I are not familiar with. WHY? Well,throughout the years I've learned my time is valuable and I've spent fair amount of time on books I didn't like. Mind you, I'm an "old-fashioned" reader, who
I wish Goodreads offered a "I chose to stop reading this book" button in addition to the "Im finished" button. I stopped halfway through. I thought this book would be quirky, witty, a bit sexy, funny, etc, etc. It was none of the above. It was not written in a witty or interesting way. That would have at least made the short stories a bit better. Some stories were two pages long about nothing and I was like wait, was that a story? Did that have a point? Most of the stories were flat, depressing,
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