A Version of the Truth (Bantam Discovery)
by Jennifer Kaufman, Karen Mack
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Author: Jennifer Kaufman, Karen MackEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-01-27
ISBN: 0385340206
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Bantam Discovery
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- ISBN13: 9780385340205
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of A Version of the Truth (Bantam Discovery)
Book Review: A refreshing form of chick-lit
Summary: 4 Stars
In reading the "chick-lit" genre, there are certain things that I've learned to expect: Female main character in some big city world looking to be a publicist or something like it, whose life has just fallen apart due to the man in her life cheating/leaving, trying to find/rediscover herself, landing in the lap of the man of her dreams, saving the day through her various antics, and living happily ever after.
A VERSION OF THE TRUTH is refreshing in the sense that it's almost completely opposite! The main female character is not some hot (haute) fashionista with loads of designer goods and high taste. She's a small town girl that struggles professionally and personally and comes off as more real rather than some other characters I've come across in the chick-lit genre. Her discussion of nature, which has been looked down upon in other reviews, shows more of the depth and complexity of her character. People escape in different ways, where some shop, she connects with nature.
I'd recommend this book to anyone who wants get away from the "typical" chick-lit book. I'd go into more of the differences, but I wouldn't want to ruin the ending for anyone :-)
Summary of A Version of the Truth (Bantam Discovery)
A novel for anyone who?s ever had to risk
it all to be the person they wanted to be?
From the critically acclaimed authors of Literacy and Longing in L.A. comes the ultimate story for late bloomers of every exotic shade. And a quirky young heroine with a knack for reinvention and a flair for the unexpected no reader will ever forget.
Thirty, newly single, and desperately in need of a paycheck, inveterate bird-watcher Cassie Shaw finds herself doing something that goes against all her principles. She lies on a résumé to land a job and finds herself employed at an elite university working for a pair of professors as unique as the rare birds she covets. One of them is the sexy, handsome, cheerfully aristocratic expert in animal behavior, Professor William Conner. Under his charismatic tutelage, Cassie begins her personal transformation into the person she was meant to be while meeting the kinds of people she has never met before. But when your entire future and your unlikely new career teeters on an unbearable untruth, the masquerade can?t go on forever. And when Cassie steps out from behind her mask it will transform her life?and the lives of those around her?forever.
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