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| Living Other Lives | 
 enlarge | Author: Caroline Leavitt
Publisher: Warner Books
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 558812
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 327
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0446517054
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446517058
ASIN: 0446517054
Publication Date: May 1995
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Re-print, some wear on book from reading, spine creases, we guarantee all purchases and ship all items via USPS mail.
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Joining the storytelling traditions of Alice Hoffman and Anne Tyler, Caroline Leavitt captures women at pivotal times in their lives--when unusual circumstances make ordinary people do extraordinary things. Leavitt studies three women, each from a different generation, and what happens when they lose the man they all love.
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ABSOLUTELY A GOOD READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! June 29, 2008
LIVING OTHER LIVES
Matt is a friendly, loveable, outgoing, veterinarian, raising his teenage daughter, Dinah, alone. He meets and falls in love with Lilly, who is living in New York. Matt's mother, Dell, lives in Pennsylvania, and was not the type of mother you would hope to have. She was distant, pre-occupied, shipping Matt off to camp or to friends so as not to be bothered by him.
Matt meets an untimely death, and all three of these women begin a journey in grief, sadness, and trying to live with their own demons. None of them barely know one another, yet they are thrown together to try to come to grips with Matt's death and to try to make a new life for themselves and in the long run, with each other.
This is an excellent book that I hated to see end. Caroline Leavitt has a magic way of writing that makes characters come to life and seem so real. This book was not sad, even though it deals with heart-ache and so much sadness.
Journey through Dell, Lilly, and Dinah's lives as they make mistakes, hurt themselves and each other, and try to face life without Matt. One of the best lines in the book reads -- "DON'T YOU HATE IT? MISSING PEOPLE?"
Wow, how true! Everyone has experienced loss due to many number of reasons and this book is very fictional but for me, was almost therapeutic in its wisdom about dealing with missing someone you love.
HOWEVER, this is not a sappy, sad tale! Quite contrary! It is a wonderful story of a teenage girl coming of age, her hopes and dreams, her becoming strong and the two women who help her achieve this, while at the same time, helping themselves.
I highly recommend this book and look forward to reading all of Ms. Leavitt's other works.
Thank you!
Pam
Laughing & Crying... great storyline! November 28, 2007
Great book, hard to put down! I had felt a lil like each character in their different phases of their lives thruout the book! Would recommend this author!!
A Heartwarming Story June 16, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have recently discovered Caroline Leavitt's novels and this has been the lastest one I have read. Like her other novels, her characters are so vivid, they become like your good friends. This novel is no exception. The emotions the different characters embraced made my heart go out to them. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to read a heartwarming story about various relationships intermingled with death, grief, and letting go.
A moving story of grief (have the tissues handy) April 27, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Caroline Leavitt's novel about a young woman dealing with the unexpected death of her fiance is believable and moving. All of Ms. Leavitt's books are great; I also highly recommend "Meeting Rozzy Halfway".
Writing at a fever pitch. December 7, 1999
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Living Other Lives, Caroline Leavitt's sixth novel, is an absolutely hypnotic read. Showing the innate magnetism that attracts -- and repels -- people, she weaves the lives of multi-generational women and the men they love and lose. This is writing at a fever pitch.
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