The Man of My Dreams

Author(s): Curtis Sittenfeld

Fiction

Hannah is a confused fourteen-year-old. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's own life, her parents' marriage is crumbling. Over the next decade and a half, love throws her some complicated questions. At what point can you no longer blame your adult failures on your messed up childhood? Is settling for someone who's not your soulmate 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?

General Information

  • : 9780552776837
  • : Random House UK
  • : BLACK SWAN
  • : 0.248
  • : December 2020
  • : 198mm X 127mm X 22mm
  • : October 2011
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Curtis Sittenfeld
  • : Paperback
  • : 1101
  • : English
  • : 813.6
  • : 352
  • : FA

More About The Product

By the author of American Wife, a sharp and witty novel about a young woman's romantic fantasies colliding with the 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. –Olly, The Book Grocer

Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the word-of-mouth bestseller American Wife. Her first novel, Prep, was a New York Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her second novel was The Man of My Dreams . She is a graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.