- Paperback: 284 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; Reissue edition (31 Dec 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0440221099
- ISBN-13: 978-0440221098
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,309,865 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Until that moment, I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to."
They met at a party. It was hate at first sight. Ruth was far too beautiful, too flamboyant. Not at all Ann's kind of person. Until a chance encounter in the bathroom led to an alliance of souls. Soon they were sharing hankies during the late showing of "Sophie's Choice," wolfing down sundaes sodden with whipped cream, telling truths of marriage, mortality, and love, secure in a kind of intimacy no man could ever know. Only best friends understand devil's food cake for breakfast when nothing else will do. After years of shared secrets, guilty pleasures, family life and divorce, they face a crisis that redefines the meaning of friendship and unconditional love.
They met at a party. It was hate at first sight. Ruth was far too beautiful, too flamboyant. Not at all Ann's kind of person. Until a chance encounter in the bathroom led to an alliance of souls. Soon they were sharing hankies during the late showing of "Sophie's Choice," wolfing down sundaes sodden with whipped cream, telling truths of marriage, mortality, and love, secure in a kind of intimacy no man could ever know. Only best friends understand devil's food cake for breakfast when nothing else will do. After years of shared secrets, guilty pleasures, family life and divorce, they face a crisis that redefines the meaning of friendship and unconditional love.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Elizabeth Berg's "Talk Before Sleep" is a short book. You can start it in the morning and finish it in the evening, preferably propped up in your own bed with a warm cup of tea and several pieces of kleenex at the ready.
The characters are incredibly lifelike. Unfortunately, so is the story line: one woman is dying of cancer. She chooses to spend her last months with her closest female friends.
Berg writes beautifully, rarely if ever lapsing into the type of writing one associates with the death-book genre: poetic, new age nonsense. Rather, Berg gives a truthful, candid and articulate view of what it's like to be the friend who gets left behind, the friend who lives.
This book made me want to call my best female friends and tell them how much they mean to me.
It's a beauty. Don't miss it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I can't say enough about this book - this is the first book by this author that I have read. I can't remember the last time a book has touched me so deeply. I was trying to eke out the book bit by bit because I loved it so much I didn't want it to end and then when it did end - wow - it must be the best last line of a book I have ever read. You will love this book & like me you will probably still be crying for an hour or so after finishing it!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I read this book in two nights, through many tears, and when I should have been sleeping. In other words, it's an easy read, it moved me, and it kept me awake. It's not an amazing piece of brilliantly written literature. Nor is it a light "beach read". It's a lovely story, simply told, about what we do when there is little time left. Having recently lost my mother to a long battle with cancer, I identified with the conversations and emotions and "female-ness" of the book. Some of the insights are fresh, and thought-provoking, even if the writing and the plot isn't. It's definitely worth reading, particularly if you fancy yourself someone with diverse tastes. So what if some of the characters seem stock, some of the situations contrived? The emotional heart and thrust of this story are what matter most.
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An avaerage easy read
I have to say that I was expecting more from this book. It didn't touch me on a personal level and I was left dissapointed. Read more
Published on 14 Aug 2005 by M. Todd
beautiful, delicate and true.
wow, is all i can say, this book is so wonderful, the thoughts of our narrator are so pure and clean. Read more
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