About this title: A nervous breakdown seems like a great idea: all that lying in bed and watching daytime TV. But who's going to have it? Will it be housewife Clodagh, who spends her days microwaving pasta for her demanding toddlers and waiting for her beautiful husband Dylan to come home? Or Lisa, hard, brittle and shiny as an M&M, reeling from the shock of a demotion from her fabulous job in London to a one-horse magazine in Dublin? Or Ashling, so normal she's weird?
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: HarperTorch
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780060557256ISBN:0060557257
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 1st printing. Binding tight, pages clean with no markings and only mildest reading wear. No crease to spine but minor edge/corner wear to cover, more pronounced on back. Original price sticker on back cover. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 547 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: HarperTorch
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780060557256ISBN:0060557257
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 547 p. Audience: General/trade. In good condition. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: HarperTorch
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780060557256ISBN:0060557257
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Some creasing of spine, otherwise in great condition. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 547 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: HarperTorch
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780060557256ISBN:0060557257
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. VERY GOOD + CONDITION-CLEAN AND TIGHT BOOK. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 547 p. Audience: General/trade. VERY GOOD + CONDITION-CLEAN AND TIGHT BOOK. paperback-Keyes, Marian, HarperTorch, 2004. Contemporary Women; Dublin; Dublin (Ireland); Fiction; General; Ireland; Periodicals; Romance. mails quickly read more
"Trashy...Originally I was drawn by the reference to sushi...Describes the misadventures at a woman's magazine in Ireland called "Colleen", predominantly through the eyes of a "The Devil Wears Prada"-type cold-hearted editor-in-chief...her cutthroat attempts to get ahead in life, and recreate the success of her previous magazine in New York City. Colleen is a detour in her life, from where she'd hoped she would be instead, working for "Manhattan" magazine...She's initially separated, and uses all the people/relationships in her life for her own gain. In contrast is her assistant editor Ashling, who on the search for a real relationship but keeps getting hurt."
"this book uncovers our daily life sorty when we tusrt our friends but they acutually r continously cheating on us. it actually happens but we are not considerate and try to keep our temprament moderate but in this novel clodagh is not forgiven and her friend leaves her. everybody is very much sincere to their in feelings and they exactly know their likes and dislikessuch as LISA whose aspirations r quiet peaky and she is up to them but dejected enough when transfered to a 2nd class country. she is also a very tricky girl and lucky enough to get the goals and success of the new magizine but fails to tackle the JACK"
"Now this I really liked. Lisa, a magazine editor, gets sent to Dublin to start a new magazine. She's hard, brittle, not really likeable but does soften some by the end of the book. She's married to a black man, Oliver, a fashion photographer. Ashling is her assistant who is the real heroine of the book. Little Miss Fixit after growing up with a depressed mother. Her best friend Clodag is the one you'd like to slap. The book is very satisfying as she gets what she deserves. I was very happy with how it turned out."
"Well, yet an other Keyes I can say again. Keyes is entertaining most of the time, but sometimes she annoys me.
As for "Sushi..." Its different from the other Keyes Ive read. This time there is three main characters instead one. They are:
Lisa, magazine editor from London sent to Dublin to start a new young woman's mag. She's bossy and obsessed with her work. Pretty different from other Keyes-characters, since she atleat seams confident. However her marriage is a catastrophe, but she cant forget about Oliver who is becoming her ex-husband.
Ashling, the typical MK-character with low self-esteem and suffering of depression. First I hated her because she was so stupid, but in the end of the book she was the character with the best development.
Clodagh, home mother tired of her husband and doing nothing expect being home. In the beginning she seamed to be the most interesting character, but since she started having an affair she turned out to be a total idiot.
Hmm, what the book really is about is searching for happiness and the kind of life that is right for you. The title Sushi for beginners somehow refers to that, but it isnt immediately very clear for me. Its something about trying new different things to find whats right for you. Yeah, thats really it, so it is a very good title. It easily gets ones attention too, since at least I didnt know what sushi actually was when I started to read the book.
My official rating for this book is 3½ even thou thats not possible. Sushi isnt as good as some other MK-books, but it actually is a bit more than silly entertainment."
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