THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB (Berkley)|报价¥62.90|图书,进口原版,Others 其他,Jacobs

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品牌:Jacobs

基本信息

·出版社:Berkley Trade

·页码:384 页码

·出版日:2008年

·ISBN:9780425219096

·条码:9780425219096

·版次:Reprint

·装帧:平装

·英语:英语

内容简介

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TheNew York Timesbestselling sensation that's "Steel Magnoliasset in Manhattan" (USA Today)-now in paperback.

Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday Night Knitting Club. Her friends are happy to escape their lives too, even for just a few hours. But when Georgia's ex suddenly reappears, demanding a role in their daughter's life, her whole world is shattered.

Luckily, Georgia's friends are there, sharing their own tales of intimacy, heartbreak, and miracle making. And when the unthinkable happens, these women will discover that what they've created isn't just a knitting club: it's a sisterhood.

作者简介

Kate Jacobs is a writer and editor who lives in Southern California. She has worked forRedbook,Working Woman, andFamily Life, among other publications.The Friday Night Knitting Clubis her first novel.

编辑推荐

From Publishers Weekly

Between running her Manhattan yarn shop, Walker & Daughter, and raising her 12-year-old biracial daughter, Dakota, Georgia Walker has plenty on her plate in Jacobs's debut novel. But when Dakota's father reappears and a former friend contacts Georgia, Georgia's orderly existence begins to unravel. Her support system is her staff and the knitting club that meets at her store every Friday night, though each person has dramas of her own brewing. Jacobs surveys the knitters' histories, and the novel's pace crawls as the novel lurches between past and present, the latter largely occupied by munching on baked goods, sipping coffee and watching the knitters size each other up. Club members' troubles don't intersect so much as build on common themes of domestic woes and betrayal. It takes a while, but when Jacobs, who worked atRedbookandWorking Woman, hits her storytelling stride, poignant twists propel the plot and help the pacing find a pleasant rhythm.(Jan.)

Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.

FromAudioFile

Kate Jacobss novel about the communal aspects of knitting celebrates the craft, which is finding renewed life in a new generation. Georgia Walker is a single mother who runs yarn shop in uptown New York City. Several of her customers come together to bond in a weekly night of knitting, noshing, and conversation. Walkers 12-year-old daughter, Dakota, a budding culinary entrepreneur, keeps the knitting circle in noshes. Carrington MacDuffies reading make the storys first-person narrator sound detached from the story. The variety of characters and their joys and concerns never come to life. Overall, MacDuffie cannot overcome the superficialities of the story itself. N.E.M. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine--Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine--This text refers to theAudio CDedition.

专业书评

FromBooklist

Georgia Walker's entire life is wrapped up in running her knitting store, Walker and Daughter, and caring for her 12-year-old daughter, Dakota. With the help of Anita, a lively widow in her seventies, Georgia starts the Friday Night Knitting Club, which draws loyal customers and a few oddballs. Darwin Chiu, a feminist grad student, believes knitting is downright old-fashioned, but she's drawn to the club as her young marriage threatens to unravel. Lucie, 42, a television producer, is about to become a mother for the first time--without a man in her life. Brash book editor KC finds her career has stalled unexpectedly, while brilliant Peri works at Walker and Daughter by day and designs handbags at night. Georgia gets her own taste of upheaval when Dakota's father reappears, hoping for a second chance. The yarn picks up steam as it draws to a conclusion, and an unexpected tragedy makes it impossible to put down. Jacobs' winning first novel is bound to have appeal among book clubs.Kristine Huntley

Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.

Review

"The book's great-worth reading now."

--Glamour

"If you are looking for an inviting group of gals to spend a few winter evenings with, pull up your afghan and snuggle in withThe Friday Night Knitting Club...[It] makes you yearn for yarn, even if you're not a knitter."

--USA Today

"Impossible to put down."

--Booklist

"Knitters will enjoy seeing the healing power of stitching put into words. Its simplicity and soothing repetition leave room for conversation, laughter, revelations and friendship-just like the beauty shop inSteel Magnolias."

--Detroit Free-Press

"Poignant twists propel the plot and help the pacing find a pleasant rhythm."

--Publishers Weekly

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