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The Coast of Akron by Adrienne Miller (view source)
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|buy=Maybe
|borrow=Yes
|pages=560
|publisher=Arrow
|date=February 2007
|isbn=978-0099478874
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Fergus is organising a party: a party for his lover, painter Lovell. Jenny, Fergus' ex-friend and a college obsession, Lovell's ex-lover and an artistic partner is invited and so is Merit, Jenny's and Lowell's bespectacled, vegetarian, animal-obsessed, statistician-married daughter.
Thanks to the publishers for giving me a chance to read this novel.
Novels we've reviewed with similar themes or a similar feel include Don DeLillo's [[White Noise]] and Douglas Coupland's [[Hey, Nostradamus]]. You might also enjoy [[The China Bird by Bryony Doran]].
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|name=Jill
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|comment= I would definitely like this. I particularly like the idea of being tricked into identifying with larger than life characters. I know what you mean about Irving and sex, but for some reason, it never bothers me with him when it does with other people.
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|name=Magda
|verb=replied
|comment= Irving: I really liked Garp, and Hotel New Hampshire a lot, but I read them in my late teens. I don't re-read now because I don't want to shatter the illusion; but every one I read since was just annoyingly like that, authorial descriptions objectifying women as sexual objects are particularly irritating. Pendulous breasts, my arse.
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