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Seventeen weddings. Six months. Only the strong survive. Joy Silverman and her boyfriend, Gabriel Winslow, seem perfect for each other. Living together in New York City, they have everything they want and everything in common--most important, that neither one wants to get married. Ever. But when Joy finds herself obligated to attend seventeen weddings in six months (including those of her father, mother, younger brother, and five of her closest girlfriends), the couple is forced to take a new look at why they're so opposed to marriage when the rest of the world can't wait to walk down the aisle. As the season heats up and the pressure mounts, Joy must confront what it means -- and what it costs -- to be true to one's self. A witty, wicked comedy of manners in the satirical tradition of Jane Austen and Evelyn Waugh, Wedding Season is an intelligent, laugh-out-loud funny examination of friendship, faith, integrity, and the ideas and institutions that bind us together, shape our lives, and define who we are. "If Jane Austen and Candace Bushnell were to meet for a long drink in a downtown bar, the delightful result might be a contemporary comedy of manners with a decidedly old-fashioned feel. Darcy Cosper has given us just that: a sweet and sharply funny concoction that will have bridesmaids everywhere nodding their heads in recognition." -- Dani Shapiro, author of Family History "Wonderful....Wedding Season is social comedy on a grand scale. A hilarious and urbane primer on getting hitched-or not-in the twenty-first century." -- Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook… (más)
This book was pretty disappointing ... from the blurbs, I was expecting a really cute, funny adventure: 17 weddings in 6 months? There's so much you could do with that! Unfortunately, Cosper took the easy way out, and the book is flat and disatisfying ... Not even good quality fluff! I forced myself to finish it, hoping it'd get better, but it didn't. Bleh. ( )
I really enjoyed this book. It is not, in my opinion, a chick lit novel. It is not light, fluffy and a great place to get ideas for your own wedding. However, it is an excellent read, the writer uses wonderful language, and the result is an intelligent take on marriage and what it means. It is about morals and principles and how they change as we get older, and how they stay the same. If you're a little tired of the chick lit treadmill, read this! You'll enjoy the vacation! ( )
This is a funny, smart chick lit book. 17 weddings to attend in 6 months would be overwhelming for anyone, but Joy and her boyfriend do not believe in marriage so it is even harder for her. The weddings she must attend include her mother, her father, her brother, and 5 of her best friends!!! She manages to make it through but it changes her in a way that is unexpected to her as well as the reader. This is not a cookie-cutter chick lit story and it does not have the ending one may expect. I enjoyed reading it though and her best friend Henry made me crack up laughing more than once! :) ( )
Wedding Season was a good enough story... Engaging enough, interesting enough with a plot that moved forward fairly steadily without dwelling too long on any one issue. Other than that, there wasn't a lot to recommend it. The main character was somewhat unsympathetic. She was judgmental and often very closed-minded, but what worked about that was the reactions of the other characters. It wasn't merely tolerated by all the characters - she suffered real consequences due to her faults.
All in all, I did enjoy the book. It wasn't one of the best I've ever read, but I might pick it up again someday if I'm thinking a lot about weddings. Otherwise, it's probably best suited for an on-the-plane book. Read it once and forget about it. ( )
Joy Silverman's story of 17 weddings in six months and her own struggle with the meaning of marriage, generally and in her life. Joy is so out of control in portions of this book, determined to sabotage herself in the most reasonable way as chick lit heroines so often do, burying her confusion and trying desperately to do The Right Thing. Not as much philosophically interesting as interpersonally interesting, this book turns out to be a voyage with a colorful cast about what it means to believe in hope and love, and to be true to oneself. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Etiquette is no about life but about creating a simulacrum of life; and manuals of etiquette, even in their democratised, multiple-choice manifestations, have a similar essential unreality. The Book of Life, being non-fictional, always ends in death, whereas the Book of Etiquette, being pastoral or romance, ends in marriage. For all its appearance of diurnal helpfulness, its underlying function is to offer an ideal vision of the world. -Julian Barnes
Olivia: Are you a comedian? Viola: No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very fangs of malice I swear, I am not that I play. -William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For their faith, this book is dedicated to Elizabeth Mermaid Sheinkman and to that most honest and honorable of men, my father.
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
This can't be true.
Citas
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I think, briefly, of Gabe, and I think that this moment is both identical to all such moments, and also like nothing else that has come before or will be hence, and I think that I am, in my own way, happy.
Seventeen weddings. Six months. Only the strong survive. Joy Silverman and her boyfriend, Gabriel Winslow, seem perfect for each other. Living together in New York City, they have everything they want and everything in common--most important, that neither one wants to get married. Ever. But when Joy finds herself obligated to attend seventeen weddings in six months (including those of her father, mother, younger brother, and five of her closest girlfriends), the couple is forced to take a new look at why they're so opposed to marriage when the rest of the world can't wait to walk down the aisle. As the season heats up and the pressure mounts, Joy must confront what it means -- and what it costs -- to be true to one's self. A witty, wicked comedy of manners in the satirical tradition of Jane Austen and Evelyn Waugh, Wedding Season is an intelligent, laugh-out-loud funny examination of friendship, faith, integrity, and the ideas and institutions that bind us together, shape our lives, and define who we are. "If Jane Austen and Candace Bushnell were to meet for a long drink in a downtown bar, the delightful result might be a contemporary comedy of manners with a decidedly old-fashioned feel. Darcy Cosper has given us just that: a sweet and sharply funny concoction that will have bridesmaids everywhere nodding their heads in recognition." -- Dani Shapiro, author of Family History "Wonderful....Wedding Season is social comedy on a grand scale. A hilarious and urbane primer on getting hitched-or not-in the twenty-first century." -- Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook
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