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Touchstone, May 2001
Trade Paperback, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 074320171X
ISBN-13: 9780743201711
Description
Pulitzer prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman and novelist-journalist Patricia O'Brien provide a thoughtful, deeply personal look at the enduring bonds of friendship between women. Friends for twenty-seven years, they have served as confessors and advisers to each other during romantic, career, and child-raising crises, and have shopped together, laughed together, and enjoyed a bond unlike any other.
Drawing on interviews with numerous women, the authors take readers into the heart of "the place where women do the work of their lives, the growing, the understanding, the reflection," and illuminate both the fragility and strength of relationships that are irreplaceable lifelines.
I KNOW JUST WHAT YOU MEAN WILL STRIKE A CHORD
WITH WOMEN OF ALL AGES.
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Kay Redfield Jamison
The New York Times
A terrific book that vividly captures the essence, delight, and occasional perils of women's friendships.
Cokie Roberts
ABC News, National Public Radio, author of We Are Our Mothers' Daughters
Patricia O'Brien and Ellen Goodman here celebrate with warmth and humor their own decades-long friendship.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
author of Wait Till Next Year
Never before has the centrality of friendship in women's lives been captured as fully as in this fabulous book. With a perfect blend of biography and anecdote, O'Brien and Goodman have written a rousing good story, complete with humor, insight, and wisdom.
Judy Blume
author of Summer Sisters
A fresh, warm, and honest look at best friends and how important a role they play in the lives of women of all ages.
Caryl Rivers
Boston Sunday Globe
When historians ask what it was like for women and their friends in a time when it often seemed that everything was changing, this will be a book that provides the texture of life, as real people lived it.
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