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Another contrived book about dysfunction

By M&C News May 9, 2008, 12:27 GMT

Theresa Rebeck has written Three Girls and Their Brother, which USA Today describes as, “The novel, despite its pretensions of wit and satire, coupled with a look at an atypical New York scenester family, remains firmly grounded in the phony and superficial.”

The reviewer didn’t seem to love it, for she added, “It all comes crashing down in an ending as ludicrous as anything the Farrelly brothers might churn out. But what can you expect from a novel that reads at best like an outlandish Sex and the City episode.”Publishers Weekly states, “Rebeck shines when Amelia gets cast in a ridiculous off-Broadway play: her insider's look at the theater world is spot on and uproarious, particularly her contrast of poor starving actors with rich starving models and of theater types with Hollywood types. The siblings' voices are not consistently strong, and an over-the-top revenge plot drains some power from the plot, but the crackling satire and scene-stealing secondaries carry the book.”Shaye Areheart Books is the publisher. Why, we must ask? Click here for the USA Today review.

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