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You can't expect authors to come up with a hit every time. You also wouldn't expect utter nonsense after such a well-researched, full-bodied novel as The Bestseller. It seems that HarperCollins pushed Goldsmith to complete her next novel so that its release would coincide with the release of the movie First Wives Club, adapted from her 1992 novel. Marrying Mom features saucy Phyllis, a retired New Yorker living in Miami, bored out of her wits now that her husband Ira has passed on--not that he was any barrel of laughs, as Phyllis continually points out. When she announces that she's moving back to New York to be with her three children, she purposely does not tell them because she knows how little she is missed. She wants to make up for the lack of attention she gave them when they were young. Poor mothering skills should not be blamed for creating these three whiny brats, though. Sig is lonely and living extravagantly on dwindling resources, Bruce is a gay man with bad business sense who cannot forgive his mother for anything, and Sharon is fat and miserable with two bratty kids and a lazy husband. There is really no one to like here, except perhaps the old guys the kids continually try to fix up with their mother. Mary Frances Wilkens -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Goldsmith follows The Bestseller (p. 768) with a light, contrived romance about a Jewish mother and her three unsettled children. Mom is Phyllis Geronomous (n‚e Phyllis Steen, so Geronomous seems a big improvement), and she lives in South Florida. While at 69, she's no longer young, she finds little appealing about the lifestyle of her many elderly neighbors, who restlessly patrol the local boardwalk and look forward only to early-bird dinners at the Rascal House. Dedicated to finding something a little less terminal, Phyllis bids farewell to her dead husband Ira at the cemetery--he doesn't answer, but he never said a lot when he was alive either--and returns to New York City to get into the hair of her unhappy children: Sigourney (n‚e Susan), a 40ish stockbroker whose business and love life are falling apart; gay Bruce, whose ``Queer Santa'' greeting-card line is failing and whose lover won't commit to marriage; and fat, whiny Sharon, whose husband Barney is a deadbeat. Guilty because she never had time to go to PTA meetings, Phyllis now wants to fix their lives. At the same time, they want her out of their hair and back with the palm trees. So, the three launch Operation Geezer Quest to find Phyllis a rich husband, complete with a Bergdorf Goodman makeover and a suite at the Pierre. Along the way, with enough Yiddish for a whole season of The Nanny, Phyllis doles out tough love and wise words. Finally, everyone's life is improved, and Mom begins her eighth decade with good sex, a large sapphire ring, and an offshore bank account in the Caymans. Some laughs and refreshing senior-citizen romance, but more like the outline for a TV sitcom than a novel. (Film rights to Paramount; Literary Guild Selection; $175,000 ad/promo; TV and radio satellite tours) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Good start - lame finish 3. Juni 1997

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I started this book thinking I was really going to like it. The first half was entertaining with some genuinely funny lines. But the last half was so absurd that I was greatly disappointed. Without revealing too much, let's just say that the boundless good fortune of every single character (both major and minor) left me wondering why the author couldn't have thrown in a dash of reality for a better mix

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I was skimming it towards the end... 2. M�rz 2000

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There wasn't a single character in this book that I honestly liked and wanted to root for. I got the feeling the author dashed this book off over a long weekend. Didn't she write the First Wive's Club? THAT book was funny and had real characters, not boring cardboard cutouts.

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Way too corny and unbelievable 24. Januar 2000

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I was really looking forward to reading another Olivia Goldsmith book, but this one just didn't do it for me. I love the author's other books, but this one seemed too rushed, too quick, without much thought given to the plot or the characters -- like she was just in a hurry to get another book out. This book was too unvelievable and predictable.

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Too predictable and unreal

I just finished reading this book a day ago and i read it on one sitting. However, after reading it, I finally realized how corny and unreal the plot was! Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 25. August 1999 von Mrunio@aol.com Someone

Insipid.

The plot is vapid and predictable, and everyone ends up happy and rich, their problems miraculously solved through convulsive twists of plot concieved perhaps in the fantasy of a... Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 24. Juni 1999 ver�ffentlicht

Light but brilliant

Less substantial than most of Goldsmith's comedy, Marrying Mom is P.G. Wodehouse transplanted to 1990s Manhattan. Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 27. Februar 1999 von Susan

Hated for it to end!

This was absolutely great!! I started reading it and was hooked before I knew it. Didn't put this book down 'til I read the last word in it (yes I read it all at once) and was... Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 28. September 1998 von Faith10208@AOL.com

What a trip!!!!!

This book was so funny and real that it was scary!!!! Ever wonder what that would be like?? Having your mother in your life after all that time? This one is a winner. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 3. September 1998 ver�ffentlicht

Never a dull moment...

As usual, Ms. Goldsmith produces a work of humor mixed with surprise. I never could have guessed the ending, although it was entirely believable.

Am 15. Februar 1998 ver�ffentlicht

Very funny book

I enjoyed this fun little book. A serious reader could be finished with it in a sitting or two. The characters and dialogue are truly entertaining. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 6. Dezember 1997 ver�ffentlicht

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