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Summary: Wonderful coming of age novel!
Review: This novel really appeals to all ages! Adult women will remember the angst of their own teen years; teens will identify with Peyton. Novel is distressingly short, though; WE NEED A SEQUEL!
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Summary: Couldn't finish this...
Review: This was my first Anne Rivers' book, and I admit to some disappointment. I loved the book up to the inclusion of the title character: Nora. Then the book turned into a Nora lovefest. Nora is smarter, sexier, more intelligent and more 'politically correct' than the rest of the other bigoted-narrow minded Anglos in the small southern town, feh. The other heroine, Peyton is an ungrateful child, who seems to to spend more time pontificating the doings of adults than any teenager alive. Instead of being grateful for the clothes and makeover her aunt gives her she whines and complains about it even to the point of being physically ill... Peyton was way too old to act like that. Errr.Back to the character of Nora. To put it bluntly: I disliked her. If her anachronistic behavior (were not bad enough), the author uses Nora as her mouthpiece for an unending soapbox commentary of social issues from morality to racial-issues, and she does it with the weight of a leaden hockey puck. (While I DO agree racial issues and civil rights are big and important factors, I did not want to be bludgeoned every time the character opens her mouth). I had to give this up about halfway through the book, the character of Nora just rubbed me completely the wrong way. If you want to read a book with racial issues done right, check out "To Kill a Mockingbird." I found Nora, Nora a disappointment.
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