â€œBeing raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesnâ€™t exist to accommodate you, which, in Hannahâ€™s observation, is something a lot of people struggle

Man of My Dreams

â€œBeing raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesnâ€™t exist to accommodate you, which, in Hannahâ€™s observation, is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into adulthood.â€â€“from The Man of My Dreams

In her acclaimed debut novel, Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld created a touchstone with her pitch-perfect portrayal of adolescence. Her prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young womanâ€™s fantasies of family and love with the challenges and realities of adult life.

Hannah Gavener is fourteen in the summer of 1991. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannahâ€™s own life, her parentsâ€™ marriage is crumbling. And somewhere in between these two extremesâ€“just maybeâ€“lie the answers to loveâ€™s most bewildering questions. But over the next decade and a half, as she moves from Philadelphia to Boston to Albuquerque, Hannah finds that the questions become more rather than less complicated: At what point can you no longer blame your adult failures on your messed-up childhood? Is settling for someone whoâ€™s not your soul mate an act of maturity or an admission of defeat? And if you move to another state for a guy who might not love you back, are you being pluckyâ€“or just pathetic?

None of the relationships in Hannahâ€™s life are without complications. Thereâ€™s her father, whose stubbornness Hannah realizes sheâ€™s unfortunately inherited; her gorgeous cousin, Fig, whose misbehavior alternately intrigues and irritates Hannah; Henry, whom Hannah first falls for in college, while heâ€™s dating Fig; and the boyfriends who love her more or less than she deserves, who adore her or break her heart. By the time sheâ€™s in her late twenties, Hannah has finally figured out what she wants mostâ€“but she doesnâ€™t yet know whether sheâ€™ll find the courage to go after it.

Full of honesty and humor, The Man of My Dreams is an unnervingly insightful and beautifully written examination of the outside forces and personal choices that make us who we are.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
EANs 9780812977882
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
EANs	9780812977882
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Man of My Dreams

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