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Jennifer Weiner's Good in Bed is the story of a year in the life of a late-twentysomething American woman: Cannie, a journalist on the Philadelphia Examiner, who has recently broken up with her boyfriend of three years (cue endless similarities with countless other books aimed at young Western women). Fortunately, Weiner's book has enough originality to break out from the mould, with an overweight heroine and a mother who has recently moved in with her lesbian lover. Good in Bed has its funny moments, dealing with humour and sensitivity with Cannie's status as a "larger woman", her bizarre family and her regrets at splitting up with Bruce, but there is often more a feeling of pathos than laughter. Cannie is not a tragic figure through her dress size--Weiner successfully side-steps any attempt to pity her or her fellow larger women at a weight-loss clinic, taking the humorous path instead--but through her relationship and career predicaments. It is therefore not clear why Weiner cast Cannie as a plus-size, unless to drive home the eternal fact that whatever their size, all women have the same neuroses inside. Cannie's year offers more lows than highs--with a particularly heart-breaking low towards the end of the novel, which is unlikely to be read by anyone with even a wry smile--and it therefore is not a "feel good to be a woman" novel. For laugh-out-loud writing with a dash of pathos try Shannon Olson's Welcome to My Planet, but for sensitive and ultimately tear-inducing touching narration try Good in Bed. --Olivia Dickinson Read More

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    A beautiful new edition of the debut novel from the bestselling author of In Her Shoes and Best Friends Forever

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    Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous. The smart sharp plus-sized reporter was perfectly happy writing about other people's lives for her local newspaper. And for the past twenty-eight years things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie. Sure her mother has come charging out of the closet and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her job her friends her dog and her life. She loves her apartment and her commodious quilt-lined bed. She has made a tenuous peace with her body and she even felt okay about ending her relationship with her boyfriend Bruce. But now this...'Loving a larger woman is an act of courage in our world ' Bruce has written in a national woman's magazine. And Cannie - who never knew that Bruce saw her as a larger woman or thought that loving her was an act of courage - is plunged into misery and the most amazing year of her life.

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    Good In Bed : Paperback : Simon & Schuster Ltd : 9781849834001 : 1849834008 : 17 Mar 2011 : A beautiful new edition of the debut novel from the bestselling author of In Her Shoesand Best Friends Forever

  • 1849834008
  • 9781849834001
  • Jennifer Weiner
  • 17 March 2011
  • Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 400
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