Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg Paperback Book

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Rent Talk Before Sleep

Author: Elizabeth Berg

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group

Published: Oct 1997

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $14.00

Pages: 224

Synopsis

What do women talk about when they know they don't have forever? They talk about what they have always talked about, only they go deeper and more honest: with outrageous humor they try to mitigate pain. Intimate and uncensored sharing, the kind of connection women prize, is at the heart of this deeply moving novel about the grit and power of female friends.



Ann and Ruth have always talked as only great friends can--honestly, and about everything: husbands and marriages, sex lives and children, their work, their hopes, their disappointments, and their dreams. For Ann, cautious and conventional, her closeness to the outspoken and eccentric Ruth brings about discovery and liberation, a chance to say whatever she wants, and, most important, under the insistent tutelage of Ruth, to become herself. Over the years, the women have shared recipes, quilting patterns, child care, delicate and dangerous secrets. Each rests secure in the knowledge that they will be friends forever. Then something happens that will change their lives forever, and the women begin to share something more profound than either of them might have predicted.



Written with an unerring ear for how women talk, laugh, and cry together, and with a gift for capturing the uniqueness of personality, Talk Before Sleep is sure to find a place in readers' hearts.

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Reviews

BookLender review by merri on 2007-06-13 23:33:18

this is a hallmark special of a book. a quick, but not very good, read about a woman whose best friend is dying of cancer. basically about her, not the dying friend, and how shes gonna be so lonely when the woman dies, since that was her only friend. a kinda whiney book.