His Little Women: A Novel

Book Description: Summit Books 4/1/1990, 1990. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 0671648586 Excellent condition, hardback 1990, no marks, great cover, great dust jacket, readit, VG+/VG+. Bookseller Inventory # BWOR-05924

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Book Description: Book Condition: New. Ships From Canada. New From Publishers Weekly Laboriously contrived, rambling and lacking momentum, Rossner's ( Looking for Mr. Goodbar ) new novel is an unsuccessful amalgam of Hollywood inside story and attempts at "'"meaningful"'" statements about the tensions between a fiction writer's creative use of real-life situations and her responsibility to avoid libelous characterizations. The eponymous "'"little women"'" are the four daughters of movie tycoon Sam Pearlstein by the three wives whom he leaves like a snake shedding skins. Nell, Sam's second daughter, is the narrator; an attorney, she competes for her father's love and attention with her older half-sister, Louisa, whose novel, a thinly disguised portrait of Sam, occasions a libel suit; the other two girls, lost in the drug culture, are minor characters. After a promising beginning that establishes expectations of a scandal (only a tepid one, it turns out), Rossner segues into a trite description of teenaged Nell's seduction b. Bookseller Inventory # 8750779160

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Book Description: Summit Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1990. Hardback. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st. new first edition hardback; dj w/shopwear. Bookseller Inventory # 013533

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Book Description: Summit Books, 1990. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Tear on bottom corner of the front dust jacket and shelf wear ----- From Library Journal Too many story lines drain dramatic tension in this sprawling novel about movie mogul Sam Pearlstein and his four daughters from three marriages. Writer Louisa Abrahms and lawyer Nell Berman, from marriages one and two, are drawn together by their adoration of Daddy (who can be a charmer), by the libel suit brought against Louisa's novel about a Hollywood producer and his daughters, and by the search for truth as each sees it. Nell, whose story this is, ponders the line between fiction and truth, a legal and personal question for her and a potential focus for this book, which dwells on Sam and his womanizing, stepfamilies' histories and squabbles, the trial, even the emerging women's movement. Rossner ( Looking for Mr. Goodbar; August) can create wonderfully full-bodied characters and tell a fine story (and do it concisely, as in a memorable account of Nell's marriage in just 18 pages)--but here she squanders her talents. Literary Guild main selection; previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 11/1/89. - Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., V a . Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Bookseller Inventory # 000428

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Book Description: Summit Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1990. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 9 1/2 " x 6 1/4". not price clipped. Bookseller Inventory # 012947

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