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"Allison Weiss has a great job...a handsome husband...an adorable daughter...and a secret. Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, aging parents, a demanding daughter, and a marriage. But when the website she develops takes off, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. Her husband's becoming distant, her daughter's acting spoiled, her father is dealing with early Alzheimer's, and her mother's barely dealing at all. As she struggles to hold her home and work life together, and meet all of the needs of the people around her, Allison finds that the painkillers she was prescribed for a back injury help her deal with more than just physical discomfort--they help her feel calm and get her through her increasingly hectic days. Sure, she worries a bit that the bottles seem to empty a bit faster each week, but it's not like she's some Hollywood starlet partying all night, or a homeless person who's lost everything. It's not as if she has an actual problem. However, when Allison's use gets to the point that she can no longer control--or hide--it, she ends up in a world she never thought she'd experience outside of a movie theater: rehab. Amid the teenage heroin addicts, the alcoholic grandmothers, the barely-trained "recovery coaches," and the counselors who seem to believe that one mode of recovery fits all, Allison struggles to get her life back on track, even as she's convincing herself that she's not as bad off as the women around her. With a sparkling comedic touch and tender, true-to-life characterizations, All Fall Down is a tale of empowerment and redemption and Jennifer Weiner's richest, most absorbing and timely story yet"--… (más)
I used to love Jennifer Weiner but she had been leaving me cold lately and I was somewhat reluctant to even pick this up but once I started to read I couldn't really put it down.
I thought the first section with Allison's spiral into addiction was great but once she got to rehab it started to lose me and by the final chapters I felt like it was all rushed and big chunks of the story seemed to go missing. I feel like Weiner just saw her deadline looming and threw the last third of the book together just to get it done.
This was my first Jennifer Weiner book. I chose this audiobook based on subject and the reviews. I didn't dislike it...I certainly wasn't brown away by it and it thought there was some lost opportunities to make it a wow story. ( )
This book was OK, one of Weiner's better stories, but I think the fact that I couldn't remember the plot the day after I read it could be attributed to 1) my lousy memory skills and 2) the boilerplate-like story. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Vera said: "Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story"? So I told her why: Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it. -----FROM HEARTBURN BY NORA EPHRON
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For my readers...who have come with me this far
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Do you generally use alcohol or drugs more than once a week?
Citas
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I held my cup, feeling the cool of it against my palm, and I took my place among them.
"Allison Weiss has a great job...a handsome husband...an adorable daughter...and a secret. Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, aging parents, a demanding daughter, and a marriage. But when the website she develops takes off, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. Her husband's becoming distant, her daughter's acting spoiled, her father is dealing with early Alzheimer's, and her mother's barely dealing at all. As she struggles to hold her home and work life together, and meet all of the needs of the people around her, Allison finds that the painkillers she was prescribed for a back injury help her deal with more than just physical discomfort--they help her feel calm and get her through her increasingly hectic days. Sure, she worries a bit that the bottles seem to empty a bit faster each week, but it's not like she's some Hollywood starlet partying all night, or a homeless person who's lost everything. It's not as if she has an actual problem. However, when Allison's use gets to the point that she can no longer control--or hide--it, she ends up in a world she never thought she'd experience outside of a movie theater: rehab. Amid the teenage heroin addicts, the alcoholic grandmothers, the barely-trained "recovery coaches," and the counselors who seem to believe that one mode of recovery fits all, Allison struggles to get her life back on track, even as she's convincing herself that she's not as bad off as the women around her. With a sparkling comedic touch and tender, true-to-life characterizations, All Fall Down is a tale of empowerment and redemption and Jennifer Weiner's richest, most absorbing and timely story yet"--
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