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All Is Vanity (2002)

por Christina Schwarz

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As they reach their mid-thirties, Margaret and Letty, best friends since childhood, begin to chafe at their sense that they are not where they ought to be in life. Margaret, driven and overconfident, decides to rectify this by quitting her job and whipping out a literary tour de force. Frustrated almost immediately, Margaret turns to Letty for support. But as Letty, a stay-at-home mother of four, begins to feel pressured to make a good showing in the upper-middle-class Los Angeles society into which her husband's new job has thrust her, Margaret sees a plot unfolding that's better than anything she could make up. Desperate to finish her book, she pushes Letty to take greater and greater risks, and secretly steals her friend's stories as fast as she can live them. Hungry for acclaim, Margaret sacrifices one of the things most precious to her, until the novel's suspenseful conclusion shows her the terrible consequences of her betrayal.… (más)
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this was kind of delicious. it moved maybe a little slowly, but it was like a train wreck that you can't tear your eyes away from. seeing margaret completely sabotage her relationship with her best friend letty, and completely misunderstand how the publishing world works, was awfully compelling. even when slow, i didn't want to stop listening.

her writing is excellent. i'm not sure all of the characters are perfectly drawn (both ted and michael aren't full) but both margaret and letty (the only ones who really matter) are. it's not a perfect book but i really enjoyed this. ( )
  overlycriticalelisa | Jul 6, 2022 |
I agree with most of the comments that it was slow in the beginning. However...because I finished it and really enjoyed the second half's drama...I am happy I stuck with it. ( )
  twryan72 | Sep 7, 2008 |
Margaret quits her teaching job to write a novel. Her best friend Letty is a stay-at-home mom with 4 kids. The first 100 pages is, basically, the story of Margaret figuring out how to write the novel. Parts were funny, and the writing was good, but the pace was just too slow for me. According to the book description, things do pick up with, I believe, Margaret stealing Letty's life, as told to her through e-mails, and uses it for her book. I just couldn't hang on that long. Maybe other writers would enjoy this book. ( )
  CatieN | Aug 28, 2008 |
This book cracked me up. It's the story of a friendship between two women and how friendships can be taken advantage of. Margaret is a New York City woman (displaced from California) who gave up her teaching career to write a novel. She has subtle hubris (described as "cynical roilings" p138) that she tries to disguise to Letty and anyone else who listens to her (mainly her husband, Ted). Letty is Margaret's childhood friend who became (Poor Letty!) a stay-at-home mom with four kids and a great kitchen in Los Angeles, California. They keep in touch via email and almost immediately I noticed that between the two friends, despite Margaret being the one trying to write a book, Letty is the better writer. I love Letty's writing, but I think that's the point. It's only a matter of time before Margaret starts using Letty as the subject of her first book. When Letty's life starts to spiral out of control Margaret does nothing to help thinking it helps her own fictional plot. ( )
1 vota SeriousGrace | Aug 2, 2008 |
This was awful. I could not finish it. I loved Drowning Ruth so I thought I'd love this. Boring! I read 100 pages but it wasn't going anywhere. I skipped to the end and decided not to bother finishing! This is the first book in a long time I could not finish.
1 vota rockyroad | Aug 26, 2007 |
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And in memory of Julia Sackin,
who taught me how to write a decent letter
when we were very young and whose
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As they reach their mid-thirties, Margaret and Letty, best friends since childhood, begin to chafe at their sense that they are not where they ought to be in life. Margaret, driven and overconfident, decides to rectify this by quitting her job and whipping out a literary tour de force. Frustrated almost immediately, Margaret turns to Letty for support. But as Letty, a stay-at-home mother of four, begins to feel pressured to make a good showing in the upper-middle-class Los Angeles society into which her husband's new job has thrust her, Margaret sees a plot unfolding that's better than anything she could make up. Desperate to finish her book, she pushes Letty to take greater and greater risks, and secretly steals her friend's stories as fast as she can live them. Hungry for acclaim, Margaret sacrifices one of the things most precious to her, until the novel's suspenseful conclusion shows her the terrible consequences of her betrayal.

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