- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Viking; 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 edition (28 Jan 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0670883387
- ISBN-13: 978-0670883387
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,382,212 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Akmakjian's novel 30,000 Mornings is a pleasant blend of fact and fiction giving the reader a light-hearted glimpse of New York at the end of a millennium. This is an exposé of the foolishness that we are all quite capable of, captured in the microcosmic life of Inge.
Inge is preoccupied with the whereabouts of her friend Karen but she is annoyed more so by the fact that she is alone in this concern for a fellow human being. While everyone else in the fashion industry continues their lives undaunted, Inge finds herself unable to function properly. She seeks solace in her shrink, her boyfriend, sex and alcohol. None can give her the answers she needs. Soon the question is not just the whereabouts of Karen, but instead a crisis of personality and direction.
Unconsciously reinforcing the maxim that the US is a salad bowl rather than a melting pot, Inge's life is a very ironic and uncomfortable view of relationships between the sexes. Through her healthy appetite for Vodka, food and sex, and Hal's obsession with urinating, maybe the book tells us much more about ourselves than of the characters.
30,000 Mornings shows all the characteristics of many works from Lapland--amusing and optimistic yet deeply embedded with melancholy.--Jon Smith
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Inge and Karen are friends. Both are models from Finland making their way in New York. But when Karen disappears, Inge's search for her friend through the studios, bars and parties of New York, leads her not only to some surprising conclusions about Karen, but also about herself.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If like me, you've ever wondered why contemporary women's fiction has to be so wet, then don't lose faith. 30,000 Mornings is chick-lit for thinking girls. It's sassy, it's witty and it puts the likes of Alexandra Potter and Adele Parks to shame.
Icy-blonde Finnish model, Inge diarises an ultramodern New York with a narrative that is both charming and effortless. Set in a gritty Manhattan winter, the novel occupies the sleazy world of sex, vodka and philosophy - an uneasy mix, but one that strangely works. Think 'Sex and the City' - only with a much darker agenda.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a wonderfully entertaining novel. On the surface it is about the art world, photography, modeling, psychoanalysis, friendships, lovers, drinking and New York City. Through Inge we see all these subjects, and with her as a guide they all come alive. Inge has a terrific voice and I enjoyed her comments, wisecracks and meditations on life.
For ultimately that is what this book is about: life and how we deal with it. As Inge deals with the loss of her friend Karen, she slowly begins to deal with her own emotional losses and blocks. As she comes alive, we the reader come alive with her.
The best compliment I can pay to Inge is that I miss her already!
Format:Paperback
I got this free with a copy of, the now sadly deceased magazine, Nova, so I put off reading it for a while thinking it would be quite trashy. I was therefore surprised that although not "literary" TTM shows insight and understanding on the themes of loss, loneliness and misunderstanding.
It's interesting that Inge is a voice of the newly immigrated to America- a social group usually reserved for the Irish (McCourt's 'Tis) or the Italians (Puzo's The Godfather). For someone unfamiliar with Scandinavian culture this book is useful in its references to the same- I think I picked up more of Finland from it than New York that is more familiar in modern literature.
Unfortunately, there are negative aspects to this book. Its lack of plot is one thing and its repetitiveness another. TTM is more like a diary that a storyline lead novel making it a thinking woman's Bridget Jones's Diary.
This trips along easily enough even at over 300 pages but its meanings and themes do not seem as strong as they could be.
It's interesting that Inge is a voice of the newly immigrated to America- a social group usually reserved for the Irish (McCourt's 'Tis) or the Italians (Puzo's The Godfather). For someone unfamiliar with Scandinavian culture this book is useful in its references to the same- I think I picked up more of Finland from it than New York that is more familiar in modern literature.
Unfortunately, there are negative aspects to this book. Its lack of plot is one thing and its repetitiveness another. TTM is more like a diary that a storyline lead novel making it a thinking woman's Bridget Jones's Diary.
This trips along easily enough even at over 300 pages but its meanings and themes do not seem as strong as they could be.
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Great Fun Book To Read
I really enjoyed reading 30,000 Mornings. It has marvelous characters, well-defined, plus a lot of really funny stuff around the edges. It deserves to do extremely well.
Published on 1 April 1999
The prose flows -- a brilliant and funny novel
The writing sparkles with wit, promise and enthusiastic realism. The writing is a combination of Donleavy and Armistead Maupin at their best. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 1999
Wonderful and mysterious. New York through Finnish eyes.
30,000 mornings is electric stuff. I absolutely loved this book. From the crazy pop philosophy to the incredible minutae of a wannabe model /photographer in New York, we get a... Read more
Published on 1 Mar 1999
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