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Article: Arrested development: Curtis Sittenfeld's post-Prep novel.(BOOKS)(The Man of My Dreams)(Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey into the Inferno of American Justice)(Book review)
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- June 5, 2006
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WHEN YOU CURL up with a book called The Man of My Dreams, knowing it was written by the woman whose first novel, Prep (published only last year), has become an instant classic--a Catcher in the Rye for modern-day Phoebes--you assume, pardonably, that you're in for a few hours of highly shareable romantic reverie, steeped in the waffle-cone-and-beer-scented nostalgia of collegiate love. It's not an original subject, God knows; but if you're too jaded to want to read a novel about great passion, you can always stick to books that suit your bah-humbug sensibility, something about poverty, perhaps, or terrorism, or Ebola.
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