Cathi Hanauer
Forfatter af The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
Om forfatteren
Cathi Hanauer is the author of three novels-My Sister's Bones, Sweet Ruin, and Gone-and the editor of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Bitch in the House. A former columnist for Galmour, Mademoiselle, and Seventeen, she has written for the New York Times; Elle; O, The Oprah vis mere Magazine; Real Simple; and other magazines. vis mindre
Værker af Cathi Hanauer
The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage (2002) — Redaktør — 690 eksemplarer
Associated Works
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (2019) — Bidragyder — 253 eksemplarer
The Bastard on the Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings About Love, Loss, Fatherhood, and Freedom (2004) — Forord — 178 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1962
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bopæl
- West Orange, New Jersey, USA
New York, New York, USA
Northampton, Massachusetts, USA - Uddannelse
- Syracuse University
University of Arizona - Erhverv
- editor
columnist - Relationer
- Jones, Daniel (husband)
- Organisationer
- Seventeen
Mademoiselle
Glamour
The New York Times
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I read this about six years ago and liked it, but I'd be interested to read it again...see how my perspective has changed.
I enjoyed the original Bitch in the House ten years or so ago. But I think I’ve outgrown this genre. I read the introduction and the first story in this sequel, but I have lost particular interest in these white privileged lives. I am still interested in the lives of my peers (white, privileged) but not in these particularly curated stories. I’ll spend my time listening to my neighbors instead. Same stories, less eloquence, lots of grit.
I read this about ten years ago in book club. I remember it, but I'm surprised I didn't write a review. I remember urging my husband to read it because "this is how women think" and he came back with Nicholas Baker's Box of Matches, saying "this is how men think."
Can't vouch for my opinion after ten years.
Can't vouch for my opinion after ten years.
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Gone by Cathi Hanauer
I was SO excited to read this one. Gone looked great! It tells the story of Eve and Eric.
Eve is a nutritionist. Eric is a sculptor. Eve's career is thriving. Eric's is not.
One night, Eric, leaves the house to take the Baby sitter home. He should be gone only a few minutes. But..he n ever comes home.
Eric has absconded with the Baby Sitter. Eve has no idea what is going on and where the two of them have gone. She just knows that all of a sudden she is a single mom whose husband has literally run away.
What a premise. And how realistic. I have known women whom similar things have happened to.
It's a pretty terrifying premise and every wife's worst nightmare.
But the book fell flat for me. It wasn't awful or even not good. I read till the end. But I had a few issues. Here are some of them:
t I disliked Eve's husband. I disliked him so much that it was hard for me to relate to him. The husband, Eric,, treated Eve really badly. It was hard for me to have much sympathy for him.I did like Eve and was surprised by how much inner strength she had in dealing with her vanishing husband.
There were way to many descriptions of food in this book. I mean whole paragraphs. That is OK I guess but at times it did feel I was reading a cooking manual. I know that is Eve's career but it was still a bit much.
The baby sitter it turns out is not sexually involved with Eric at all. Not a spoiler since you find that out early on. She has another reason for needing to abscond with Eric. And her story really did not interest me much. It just didn't. So I was not very invested.
All in all, I enjoyed some aspects of the book more then the book as a whole but it is possible I am not the target audience for it.I thought it was going to be quite different then it wound up being. Still I would not call "Gone" a bad book at all. It just was not the book for me.
SPOILERS:
I felt awful when Eve's client died and did not see that coming.
Eric's angst over his talent being gone made me feel for him a bit but his callousness toward Eve made it difficult.
Gone was not a bad read but it was not one I was wild over.… (mere)