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The Guy Not Taken: Stories

by Jennifer Weiner

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Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. From a teenager coming to terms with her father's disappearance to a widow accepting two young women into her home, Weiner's eleven stories explore those transformative moments in our every day.

We meet Marlie Davidow, home alone with her new baby late one Friday night, when she wanders onto her ex's online wedding registry and wonders what if she had wound up with the guy not taken. We stumble on Good in Bed's Bruce Guberman, liquored-up and ready for anything on the night of his best friend's bachelor party, until stealing his girlfriend's tiny rat terrier becomes more complicated than he'd planned. We find Jessica Norton listing her beloved New York City apartment in the hope of winning her broker's heart. And we follow an unlikely friendship between two very different new mothers, and the choices that bring them together — and pull them apart.

The Guy Not Taken demonstrates Weiner's amazing ability to create characters who "feel like they could be your best friend" (Janet Maslin) and to find hope and humor, longing and love in the hidden corners of our common experiences.

Review:

"Hilarious, heartbreaking, and insightful, Weiner shows she can write with exquisite tenderness as well as humor." The Miami Herald

Review:

"Weiner has a brilliant eye for social stratum, character sketches, and renderings of suburban atmospherics." The Washington Post Book World

Review:

"The stories are a readable mix of love, angst, disappointment and hope....If you weren't previously a fan of Weiner's, you will be after reading her latest." San Antonio Express-News

Review:

"Jennifer Weiner can be very, very funny, and that's the saving grace of this uneven collection of stories." Philadelphia Inquirer

Review:

"All the stories in Weiner's collection have that...quality to which smart women, whose lives are complicated by careers, men, babies, parents and siblings, can relate." USA Today

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About the Author

Jennifer Weiner is the author of Good in Bed. She lives with her family in Philadelphia.

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Table of Contents

Contents

Just Desserts

Travels with Nicki

The Wedding Bed

Swim

Good Men

Buyer's Market

The Guy Not Taken

The Mother's Hour

Oranges from Florida

Tour of Duty

Dora on the Beach

Acknowledgments

Author's Notes on Stories A Conversation with Jennifer Weiner Questions and Topics for Discussion

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Product Details

ISBN:

9781416535201

Subtitle:

Stories

Author:

Weiner, Jennifer

Publisher:

Atria Books

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Short Stories (single author)

Subject:

Single women

Copyright:

2006

Edition Description:

Atria Bks Hdcvr

Publication Date:

September 2006

Binding:

Hardback

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

304

Dimensions:

9 x 6 x 1 in 15.89 oz

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Product details 304 pages Atria Books - 2006-10-27 English 9781416535201 Reviews:

"Review" by The Miami Herald, "Hilarious, heartbreaking, and insightful, Weiner shows she can write with exquisite tenderness as well as humor."

"Review" by The Washington Post Book World, "Weiner has a brilliant eye for social stratum, character sketches, and renderings of suburban atmospherics."

"Review" by San Antonio Express-News, "The stories are a readable mix of love, angst, disappointment and hope....If you weren't previously a fan of Weiner's, you will be after reading her latest."

"Review" by Philadelphia Inquirer, "Jennifer Weiner can be very, very funny, and that's the saving grace of this uneven collection of stories."

"Review" by USA Today, "All the stories in Weiner's collection have that...quality to which smart women, whose lives are complicated by careers, men, babies, parents and siblings, can relate."