Best Friends Paperback - 2002
by Martha Moody
Moody's first novel examines the dynamics of friendship between two very different women. Meeting as college roommates, the girls are surprised to learn that, despite their many differences, the two form a bond that will last a lifetime.
Summary
Martha Moody's national bestsellera compassionate and tender novel about best friends from college. A testament to the power of female friendship.
When Clare Mann arrives at Oberlin in 1973, she’s never met anyone like Sally Rose. Rich and beautiful, Sally is utterly foreign to a middle-class, Midwestern Protestant like Clareand utterly fascinating. The fascination only grows when Sally brings her home to L.A. Mr. Rosecharismatic, charming, and owner of a profitable business shrouded in secreyis nearly as compelling a figure to Clare as he is to his own daughter. California seems like paradise after winters in Ohio. And Clare begins to look forward desperately to these visits, to carefree rides in Sally’s Kharmann Ghia and lazy poolside days.
As the years pass, Clare becomes a doctor and Sally a lawyer, always remaining roommates at heart, a plane ride or phone call away. Marriages and divorces and births and deaths do not separate them. But secrets mightfor as Clare watches, the Rose family begins to self-destruct before her eyes. And the things she knows are the kinds of things that no one wants to tell a best friend.
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- Title Best Friends
- Author Martha Moody
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 512
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-06-04
- ISBN 9781573229357 / 1573229350
- Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.12 x 1.1 in (20.47 x 13.00 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Friendship
- Library of Congress subjects Women college students, Female friendship
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
”[A] terrific novel.”Redbook
"First novels that track a pair of friends from college days through their subsequent lives aren’t exactly uncommon, but Moody’s is so freshly observed and gifted with such a powerful sense of the ravages of time that it feels utterly new...The book never loses its edge, at once compassionate and humorous, nor its moving conviction that a strong friendship between women can be one of life’s most powerful relationships."Publishers Weekly (starred review)
”Moody is brilliant at exposing just how emotionally and morally complex a friendship can be.”Diane Vreuls, author of Are We There Yet?
"She captures the feel of things, the complexity of human lives, and the ability of time to expose and to heal."Josephine Humphreys, author of Nowhere Else on Earth
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