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Rent Coming Out
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Narrator: David Garrison
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Random House
Published: Jun 2006
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $27.95
Discs: 4
Synopsis
Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy legal career, a solid marriage, and a way of managing her thriving family with grace, humor, and boundless energy. With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be no challenge to which Olympia cannot rise. Until one sunny day in May, when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New Yorkand chaos erupts all around her. One twin’s excitement is balanced by the other’s outrage; her previous husband’s profound snobbism is in sharp contrast to her current husband’s flat refusal to attend.
For Olympia’s husband, Harry, whose parents survived the Holocaust, the idea of a blue-blood debutante ball is abhorrent. Her daughter Veronica, a natural-born rebel, agreeswhile Veronica’s identical twin, Virginia, is already shopping for the perfect dress. Then there’s Olympia’s ex, an insufferable snob, who sees the ball as the perfect opportunity for a family feud. And amid all the hubbub, Olympia’s college-age son, Charlie, is facing a turning point in his lifeand may need his mother more than ever. But despite it all, Olympia is determined to steer her family through the event until, just days before the cotillion, things begin to unravel with alarming speed.
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Reviews
What a disappointment this book was,very boring and predictable. The whole novel centers around a coming out party for the oldest daughter of a wealthy family. There are too many good books out there waiting to be read and this is not one of them.
I agree with the previous reviewer. Thank goodness the story doesn't take long to read. It's really pretty stupid, filled with shallow people and really no excitement at all. Just 'fluff' to read, but certainly not a book that I found inspiring.