With Friends Like These - Hardcover

Koslow, Sally

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345506227 ISBN 13: 9780345506221

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2010

Synopsis

Forging a deep friendship in spite of their differences, former roommates Quincy, Jules, Talia and Chloe struggle with respective challenges in the ensuing years, which are complicated by their illusion-based comparisons to one another's circumstances. 45,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"A great women's fiction read that belongs on beach blankets this summer. It wonderfully tells the story of four friends who met when they share an apartment when they are just out of school and they move on into and out of each other's lives. Told in chapters about each character, Koslow writes great cliffhangers."--Bookreporter.com
"It's a West Side story...Tragedy, comedy and plenty of "Sex and the City" in this summer novel."--"New York Post"
""With Friends Like These" is funny, but it's also poignant ...Very wise...You should find yourself rushing to the end, wondering if the women will ever be able to restore their friendships."--"Connecticut Post"
"A knowing, sharp-edged chronicle of ambition and acceptance that's smart, raw, and achingly real...Koslow packs a trove of wit and wisdom into [this] package."
--"Publishers Weekly"
""With Friends Like These" explores complexities, contradictions of competitive sisterhood in the Big Apple with wit, g

"A refreshingly honest look at friendships and how they change over time . . . The rich details make every page worth reading."--Charleston "Post and Courier
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"Smart, raw, and achingly real . . . a trove of wit and wisdom."--"Publishers Weekly
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"Koslow examines the intricate and complex tableaux that is female friendship . . . with a refreshing, and sometimes startling, honesty."--Bookreporter.com
"[A] witty reflection on sisterhood."--"More
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"Very wise . . . You should find yourself rushing to the end, wondering if the women will ever be able to restore their friendships."--"Connecticut Post "

"A refreshingly honest look at friendships and how they change over time . . . The rich details make every page worth reading."--Charleston Post and Courier

"Smart, raw, and achingly real . . . a trove of wit and wisdom."--Publishers Weekly

"Koslow examines the intricate and complex tableaux that is female friendship . . . with a refreshing, and sometimes startling, honesty."--Bookreporter.com

"[A] witty reflection on sisterhood."--More

"Very wise . . . You should find yourself rushing to the end, wondering if the women will ever be able to restore their friendships."--Connecticut Post

About the Author:

\Sally Koslow is the author of With Friends Like These, The Late, Lamented Molly Marx and Little Pink Slips. Her essays have been published in More, O: The Oprah Magazine, and The New York Observer, among other publications. She was the editor in chief of both McCall’s and Lifetime, was an editor at Mademoiselle and Woman’s Day, and teaches creative writing at the Writing Institute of Sarah Lawrence College. The mother of two sons, she lives in New York City with her husband.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0345506227
• ISBN 13: 9780345506221
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320