About this title: Abigail and Dorcas are twins, but they are as different as two girls can be. Abigail is promiscuous and vain, Dorcas is scholarly and repressed. But the two get along, and when Abigail has an out-of-wedlock daughter, she and Dorcas care for the child together. Then Abigail meets Conrad, a womanizing sadist who nearly destroys Abigail--and even has a crack at Dorcas. When Abigail finally takes her revenge, it isn't pretty....
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Description: Good. 0312311818 Library copy with mylar cover and library markings. Great service. Fast shipping. Saving trees 1 page at a time! read more
Description: Very Good. 0312311818 Library copy with mylar cover and library markings. Great service. Fast shipping. Saving trees 1 page at a time! read more
Description: Very good. Very gently read trade softcover. Need a good laugh? This is it. Will ship next business day or sooner. Quality, great service, and fair prices always. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780312311810ISBN:0312311818
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"Zoe highly recommended this book to me. And I enjoyed it but couldn't really get into theend of the book ...since the author basically tells us how it is going to end from the beginning - the story just winds down to the enevitable end and I had to push myself to keep reading the last couple of chapters..I really enjoyed the characters the writer developed -- I know some of those people in real life!!!! She nailed it. It made me want to visit Rhode Island - a place I hadn't really given much thought to."
"Fabulously funny and riveting. The book had absorbing characters, irreverant humor and a worthy plot. Would recommend it highly. I have read both Jenny and the Jaws of Life and The Writing Class also by this author. All were beautifully written and I couldn't read them fast enough."
"The funniest thing about this book was its title. As one of the other commenters said, it really suffered from bad advertising -- if it had been billed as "biting" or "incredibly sarcastic" rather than "hilarious," maybe my expectations would have been different.
But as it stood, this story about the stereotypical brilliant spinster librarian was just so very meh. I liked Dorcas' character and clearly felt her revulsion for her twin sister, I liked the structure running parallel to the biography, I like that the spinster librarian was allowed to get trashed alone in her library on a weekend, but there was just no narrative tension."
"I read her short story collection a few years ago. Liked its hustle, but most of the stories lacked full realization. Winner of the National Book Award, however: frickin' great. Nicely put together. Consistent tone. Warped, comic characters. It's a fun, easy read, and it doesn't give you that gross guilty feeling after you've finished it, either. You can respect this book's structure while still taking a lot of joy from it."
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