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Hardcover Was She Pretty? Book

ISBN: 0374299269

ISBN13: 9780374299262

Was She Pretty?

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A dreamy exploration of relationships and jealousy . . . pithy and deadpan . . . It's no self-help book." --SalonWhat's left when a relationship ends? Where does jealousy come from? Delicately and sensitively, Leanne Shapton (Swimming Studies) ruminates on ex-lovers, and our lovers' ex-lovers. A few expressive pencil lines outline a long-abandoned winter coat here, an ineffably alluring Mona Lisa smile there. Each double page describes the way all exes are captured: as impossible to live up to as a Polaroid taken at a flattering angle. This new paperback edition of Was She Pretty? brings the reader deep into a circle of phantoms: its intimate liaisons, embarrassing secrets, and sardonic anecdotes. Shapton introduces the obsessives and the dilettantes, the poets and the actresses, the people with great hair and the people with idiosyncratic clothes. As funny as it is insightful, Was She Pretty? speaks to a central human concern: How do we compare? Elegantly drawn and perfectly narrated, the pages of Was She Pretty? are a testimonial to the power of observation and misapprehension. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
Finding Identity:

There were writings and pictures, different sayings that was kept to the mind, from what I made out it was put together by young girls' patients in an asylum, there were much too be said, but they were limited to expression. This book has been passed around from family and friends and they all get different ideas and view on the characters. The Writer had done an excellent finding for each person. I hope she will do a follow...

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Everybody wonders, it's just no one talks about it

Have you ever been out with the person you're seeing when you run into someone who they know, but seem not to want to introduce you to? When you ask later, they'll say, "Oh, that was just a friend." In your mind you'll conjure up all manner of sordid details about their past association because, obviously, it was an ex. The jealousy will be overwhelming even though your partner came home with you and seems to have completely...

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Anyone who's old enough to have racked up a few ex-lovers, each of whom come fortified with a backlist of their own, will thrill to the economical poetry of this book. It made me feel nostalgic, and a part of something larger than myself. Did she change the names?

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