E-audiobook
Coming out [electronic resource] / Danielle Steel.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781415945094 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1415945098 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: [Santa Ana, Calif.] : Books on Tape, 2007.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 4:04:53. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by David Garrison. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 58668 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Debutantes > Fiction. Socialites > Fiction. Conflict of generations > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
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- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2006 May #1
Manhattan matron struggles to keep the family peace when her wildly divergent twin daughters are invited to a debutante ball.With blueblood originsâif not inclinationsâOlympia Crawford Rubenstein is sweetly nostalgic when she receives an invitation for her 18-year-old twins Veronica and Virginia to attend New York's toniest coming-out ball. A former debutante herself, but now a busy lawyer with a five-year-old son by her adoring second husband, Harry, Olympia knows that the days of rich girls finding suitable husbands at such society events are long over. Still, she thinks it would be a nice opportunity for the girls. Boy-and-shopping-crazed Virginia agrees, and she is overjoyed at the idea of wearing a white dress to the fancy party. Her more serious left-leaning sister, however, thinks the whole ritual is ridiculous and refuses to go. Olympia's ex-husband, Chauncey, a polo-playing blowhard, not only insists that his daughters make their debut, but he even threatens to cut off their college tuition unless they both participate, unfairly pitting the sisters against each other. Harry, an otherwise mensch of a judge, wants nothing to do with the waspy tradition, believing it to be elitist and anti-Semitic. That is why he is disappointed when his Holocaust-survivor mom Frieda, thinking it will be great fun, agrees to go as a family guest. Olympia is left stuck in the middle, and needless to say, additional stresses, such as a punk-rock escort, an ill-advised tattoo and an unexpected bout of chicken pox nearly derail her careful attempts to make the evening work. And then there is Olympia's dutiful eldest son Charlie, a college senior, who, it is repeatedly noted, seems preoccupied and sad. What ever could be wrong with the boy? Hint: Coming out is not just for debs anymore! Fortunately, compromises are made and family bonds prevail in Steel's short and syrupy latest (The House, 2006, etc.).A slight confection that spares no heartwarming family cliché, but one that acknowledges the unique challenges of today's mixed families. Copyright Kirkus 2006 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2006 April #1
(See Prepub Alert, LJ 3/1/06). Ann Kim Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2006 November #1
Steel's latest novel revolves around an invitation to a debutante ball in New York City, focusing on what she knows bestââ¬"the lifestyles of the wealthy and glamorous. Attorney Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy and fulfilling career. She has a wonderful relationship with her second husband, Harry, an appeals court judge. They live with Olympia's twin daughters from her first marriage, and Max, who's in kindergarten. She has a busy household and always manages her family with love, humor, and boundless energy. Then the family receives an invitation that causes an uproar. Olympia's ex-husband, Chauncey, a spoiled, formulaic, polo-playing aristocratic brute, demands that the girls attend the ball or he won't pay their college tuition. Harry, a liberal-thinking man, the son of Holocaust survivors, is firmly opposed to the party; he finds it elitist and discriminatory. Veronica, a zealous freethinking teenager, refuses to attend, while Virginia is enthusiastic. The whole narrative is focused on the conflict and resolution of this family quandary. In this predictable and tedious story read by David Garrison, everything works out in the end. For Steel followers only.ââ¬"Carol Stern, Glen Cove P.L., NY
[Page 121]. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
