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Happiness Sold Separately
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Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Book written by: Lolly Winston
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Happiness Sold Separately - book description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780446699396
ISBN: 044669939X
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2007-06-19
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
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The New York Times bestseller about how marriage, love, and how sometimes falling in love with the wrong person at the wrong time can be the right thing. Elinor Mackey has lived her life in perfect order: college, law school, marriage, successful corporate career. But when she discovers that she and her podiatrist husband, Ted, can't have children, Elinor withdraws into her own world of heartbreak and anger. While Elinor
falls in love with the oak tree in their front yard, sleeping under it at night, Ted begins an affair with Gina, the nutritionist at their gym. Ted, who may be the only one who can help Gina and her son, suddenly finds himself in love with two women at the same time. In the tradition of Anne Tyler, John Cheever, and Tom Perrotta, Winston's second novel looks beyond the manicured surface of suburbia to a world of loss, longing, lust, and betrayal.
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Summary: Happiness Sold Separately
Comment: Happiness Sold Separately opens with Elinor finding out that her husband has been unfaithful. Initially, you think this will be a book about the bad cheating husband and the wife who's the victim. There's much more to this book. The affair and marital problems are viewed from everyone's perspective. The author develops the characters so well, that you feel they're real people and you understand why they've made the decisions they have, whether you agree with them or not.
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Summary: A refreshingly funny and messy love story. Great second book!
Comment: Sometimes friendship is what holds two people together; sometimes when everything else fails only empathy and compassion remain.
This is the story of Elinor, a 40 year old attorney who works in Silicon Valley and her podiatrist husband Ted, as well as, the people in between.
Elinor wants to get pregnant and they have tried in vitro more than once but the distance holding Ted and Elinor together is growing and the vastness of their distance takes them in different directions altogether. Ted starts going to the gym and working out while Elinor keeps researching pregnancy related themes and adoption. She holes up in the laundry room washing and drying their clothes over and over finding solace in the warmth of the laundry room as well as in the humming of the dryer and the smells of fabric softener while Ted is falling for his gym instructor Gina and sleeping with her behind his wife's back.
One day out of the blue, Elinor grabs the receiver while Ted is whispering with a woman, this woman is Gina his lover. Elinor follows him only to get crushed by what she sees. She cannot contain her surprise and she has to confront them both. Matters aren't helped by the fact that Ted's mistress is a good looking kindhearted woman with a ten year old son who will also fall head over heels in love with Ted.
This is a modern day love story that you will find unexpected, refreshing and poignantly funny.
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Summary: Read Good Grief Instead
Comment: I adored Ms. Winston's first book, "Good Grief", and was anxiously anticipating her second novel. My excitement was magnified when I read the synopsis, having dealt with infertility myself, I thought that she would provide some wondeful insights into the struggle and tell an entertaining, heartwarming story at the same time. I was definitely disappointed. The book wasn't awful, but I wish that I had gotten it from the library instead of buying it.
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Summary: Wonderful Story- Ok writing
Comment: A very hard topic to address- Lolly Winston handles infertility with kid gloves- infedelity with hopefulness.
There is a mixture of anger and sadness when we find out Elinor's husband is cheating on her with a woman who already has a child. We later find out her husband feels adequate with this other woman and feels a part of the family- and needed- because the child so desperately wants a father.
The kid is endearing, the other woman is lovely thought you WANT to hate her, and poor Elinor is more and more angry of her lack of child. She goes through hormone pills and shots, invitro fertilization and so many other attempts that she becomes borderline obsessed with her lack of child.
I can easily see this type of situation happening to many, many women. We are thought the purpose of being a woman is to produce children- or we at least take comfort in having the ABILITY. When that is not working- what's left?
Lolly Winston writes a good story. There are some parts we could do without- some parts are boing- some you just want to see Elinor show some GD anger! But overall it is a wonderful story.
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Summary: Deeply dissapointing
Comment: I generally like to read as a means of losing myself in whatever world the author has created. Well I did lose myself in this one, although not in the way I usually hope, and spent several days feeling sad and frustrated after finishing it, while also increasingly grateful for my husband. I gave it 2 stars simply because it's well-written and entertaining, but I was deeply bothered by the subject matter. I am tired of people making excuses for infidelity - why has it become an accepted part of our society? "She wasn't fulfilling his needs..." - give me a break! Have we all forgotten the vow we took? I have dealt with infertility myself and could relate to what Ted & Elinor went through, but if the marriage is no longer working and they felt drawn to other people, end it and move on. I resented the fact that I was being persuaded to feel sympathy for all of the characters, some of which did not deserve any sympathy. So you've been dealt a bad hand... that doesn't make it OK. The only one I really felt sorry for was Toby.
If you enjoy depressing soap-operaesque books, this is a great one for you. Otherwise, don't waste your time.
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