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The man of my dreams a novel

"Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which, in Hannah's observation, is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into adulthood."---- The Man of My Dreams From the Hardcover edition.

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  • "A clueless young woman's fantasies about family, romance, and love collide headlong with the challenges, complexities, and realities of adult life and relationships."
  • ""Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which, in Hannah's observation, is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into adulthood."---- The Man of My Dreams From the Hardcover edition."@en
  • ""In her acclaimed debut novel, Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld created a touchstone with her pitch-perfect portrayal of adolescence. Her prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman's fantasies of family and love with the challenges and realities of adult life. Hannah Gavener is fourteen in the summer of 1991. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's own life, her parents' marriage is crumbling. And somewhere in between these two extremes-just maybe-lie the answers to love's most bewildering questions. But over the next decade and a half, as she moves from Philadelphia to Boston to Albuquerque, Hannah finds that the questions become more rather than less complicated: At what point can you no longer blame your adult failures on your messed-up childhood? Is settling for someone who's not your soul mate an act of maturity or an admission of defeat? And if you move to another state for a guy who might not love you back, are you being plucky-or just pathetic? None of the relationships in Hannah's life are without complications. There's her father, whose stubbornness Hannah realizes she's unfortunately inherited; her gorgeous cousin, Fig, whose misbehavior alternately intrigues and irritates Hannah; Henry, whom Hannah first falls for in college, while he's dating Fig; and the boyfriends who love her more or less than she deserves, who adore her or break her heart. By the time she's in her late twenties, Hannah has finally figured out what she wants most-but she doesn't yet know whether she'll find the courage to go after it. Full of honesty and humor, The Man of My Dreams is an unnervingly insightful and beautifully written examination of the outside forces and personal choices that make us who we are."--Publisher's website."
  • "Tussen haar veertiende en haar negenentwintigste is een jonge vrouw naarstig op zoek naar de man van haar dromen."
  • "Hannah Gavener's fantasies about family, romance, and love collide headlong with the challenges, complexities, and realities of adult life and relationships."
  • "Sittenfeld's poignant if generic follow-up to her bestselling debut, Prep, similarly tracks a young woman's coming-of-age, but rather than navigating an elite school's nasty and brutish social system, this time the narrator contends with a dysfunctional family and her own yearnings for love. Fourteen-year-old Hannah Gavener is abruptly shipped off from Philadelphia to live with her aunt in Pittsburgh when her mercurial, vindictive father breaks up his marriage and family, which includes Hannah's older sister, Allison, and their browbeaten mother. Sweet but insecure and passive, Hannah had "been raised ... not to be accommodated but to accommodate," an upbringing that hobbles all her subsequent relationships. The novel follows Hannah through her teens and late 20s (from 1991 to 2005), as she searches for romantic fulfillment, navigates friendships (e.g., with her larger-than-life cousin Fig) and alternately tries to reconcile with her father and distance herself from him. But the most influential connection Hannah makes is with her psychiatrist, Dr. Lewin, whom she begins seeing her freshman year at Tufts. Although the novel aspires to be taken seriously and Hannah is a sympathetic protagonist, she remains a textbook case of a young woman who wants "a man who will deny her. A man of her own who isn't hers.""@en
  • "A clueless young woman's fantasies about family, romance and love collide headlong with the challenges, complexities, and realities of adult life and relationships."@en
  • "A clueless young woman's fantasies about family, romance and love collide headlong with the challenges, complexities, and realities of adult life and relationships."
  • "Hannah is 14. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's life, her parents' marriage is crumbling. Over the next 15 years, as Hannah moves from Philadelphia to Boston to Albuquerque, she finds that the answers to love's most bewildering questions become more complicated."@en

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  • "Americké romány"
  • "Chinese language edition (Traditional)"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "American fiction"
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en

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  • "我的完美情人"
  • "Nae insaengui namjadeul"
  • "En kvinde, tre mænd og en psykolog : en roman"@da
  • "Wo de wan mei qing ren"
  • "The man of my dreams a novel"@en
  • "내인생의남자들"
  • "Muž mých snů"
  • "Mannen i mina drömmar : [roman]"@sv
  • "De man van mijn dromen"
  • "The man of my dreams : a novel"
  • "The Man of My Dreams"
  • "The Man of My Dreams"@en
  • "Nae insaeng ŭi namjadŭl"
  • "The man of my dreams"@en
  • "The man of my dreams"

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