Best Friends A Novel

by Martha Moody | Women's Fiction |
ISBN: 1573221880 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Germanophile of Litchfield, New Hampshire USA on 12/20/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by Germanophile from Litchfield, New Hampshire USA on Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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BOOK DESCRIPTION:

"When Clare Mann arrives at Oberlin in 1973, she's never met anyone like Sally Rose. Rich and beautiful, Sally is utterly foreign to a middle-class Midwestern Protestant like Clare - and utterly fascinating. The fascination only grows when Sally brings her come to LA. Mr. Rose - charismatic, charming and owner of a profitable business shhrouded in secrecy - is nearly as compelling a figure to Clare as he is to his own daugher. California seems like paradise after winters in Ohio. And Clare begins to look forward desperately to these visits, to carefree rides in Sally's Kharmann Ghia and lazy poolside days.

As the years pass, Clare becomes a doctor and Sally a lawyer, always remaining roommates at heart, a plane ride or phone call away. Marriages and divorces and births and deaths do not separate them. But secrets might -- for as Clare watches, the Rose family begins to self-destruct before her eyes. And the things she knows are the kinds of things that no one wants to tell a best friend." (Description from back of book)

The author is a physician in Ohio; this is her first novel. This was quite OK for a debut novel, and kept me up at night so I could finish it. I've rad so much fiction by now that everything has become a bit predictable to me, and this was no exception, though that's not a negative comment. The appeal of this book was that the characters are around my age, and lived in the eras I did.

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