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by: Jennifer Weiner
Binding: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Atria
Manufacturer: Atria
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: September 17, 2002
Publisher: Atria
Release Date: September 17, 2002
Sales Rank: 847682
Studio: Atria
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Product Description:
Rose Feller is thirty years old, a high-powered attorney, with a secret passion for romance novels, an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she's beautiful. Meet Rose's sister Maggie. Twenty-eight years old, drop-dead gorgeous and only occasionally employed, Maggie is a backing singer in a band called Whiskered Biscuit. She dreams of fame and fortune -- and of getting her dowdy big sister to stick to a skin-care regime. These two women with nothing in common but a childhood tragedy, shared DNA, and the same size feet, are about to learn that their family is more different than they ever imagined, and that they're more alike than they'd ever believe. Funny and poignant, richly detailed and wrenchingly real, In He Shoes will speak to anyone who's endured the bonds of sisterhood, and to everyone who's dreamed of trying something else on for size.
Amazon.com Review:
The Feller sisters are equal but opposite. Maggie is the good-looking, dyslexic little sister who knows how to get anything she wants--but not how to keep it. She 'felt as if somewhere between the ages of fourteen and sixteen she'd walked off the edge of a cliff and had been falling ever since.' Rose is the plump, practical, responsible older sister who knows about law but not much about her own happiness: 'What did she like, besides shoes, and Jim, and foods that were bad for her?' When Maggie's latest eviction lands her in Rose's apartment, and Maggie insults Rose by seducing one of her sister's rare boyfriends, what follows is a chain of events by turns hilarious and heartbreaking. Embarrassed Rose evicts Maggie and begins a work sabbatical leading to a new livelihood and way of living. Maggie flees and runs away to Princeton. Masquerading as a student, she learns to love poetry and saves money for a trip to Miami--and a visit to a long-lost grandmother named Ella who might offer her a last shot at sanctuary. But In Her Shoes, the second novel from Good in Bed author Jennifer Weiner, is about more than the sisters' latest sibling rivalry; Maggie and Rose must sort out the childhood vulnerabilities and family mysteries that still linger two decades after their mother's death. In less capable hands, the plot might grow corny, but Weiner's humor and affection for the characters ultimately helps them transcend both neuroses and grief and learn the redemptive power of love. --Jane Hodges
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - In Her Shoes
This is the book that made me fall in love with Jennifer Weiner. I could not put the book down! I also read it before seeing the movie. I cried, laughed, enjoyed this book.
Rating: - So much more than the movie ...
I loved this book! I had seen the movie version when it first came out a few years back and can't believe it took me so long to read the book. I think this is Jennifer Weiner's finest effort at character development thus far. I know many women who see part of themselves in the character of Rose and it was a joy to follow her on her path to happiness.
Rating:  - Super fun to read
I didn't know what to expect from this book. I had no idea who the author was or the type of book it was. I Really loved this book and of course, the book is always better that the movie. I really loved this "chick-lit" and I read alot of books from different genres. I am now a fan of Jennifer Weiner.
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