The Bubble Reputation

By Cathie Pelletier

Book Overview

Rosemary O'Neal lived for eight years with William, in a rambling country house in Maine. Then William committed suicide on a trip to London, leaving her with questions, anger, and no way to say... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671890107
• ISBN13: 9780671890100
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Washington Square Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

life affirming, quirky, wise

This is a wonderful work of quirky characters, ups and downs, life affirmation, and wisdom. The book covers the first year in the life of the heroine, Rosemary O'Neal, after the loss of her lover of eight years, William, to suicide. The writing is sensuous but distant as Rosemary recalls growing up with her family and her time with William. Her relatives and best friend from college descend on her, filling her guest rooms, and driving her out of the house to live in a tent on the hill for peace and privacy. She uses the year to answer questions about William and about herself, and emerges calmer, stronger, wiser, and whole again to carry forth. I identify with the ups and downs of dealing with the memories of family members gone, and other cherished experiences lost to the past, and the challenge of continuing to deal with the present and with others and to grow. It is a gentle, poignant, beautiful treatment that leaves us whole, like Rosemary, to carry on.

Brilliant satire and the best comic/sad writing ever.

Someone needs to wise up and get this book back in print. I had to search all over hell and finally ended up buying it from an online shop. I'm a big Cathie Pelletier fan, but I had missed this one when it came out. What a film this would make! I wish I were like Rosemary in this story. What a woman. And Uncle Bishop is the uncle we all wish we had. I laughed all right, but the sad moments curbed it for me in just the right ways.