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Original Title:	Lucky Girls
ISBN:	0330493418 (ISBN13: 9780330493413)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for New Writers (2005), Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (2004)

Lucky Girls

Nell Freudenberger

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.43 | 1156 Users | 138 Reviews

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Title	:	Lucky Girls
Author	:	Nell Freudenberger
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2005 by Picador (first published August 1st 2003)
Categories	:	Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. India. Literary Fiction. Asia. Contemporary

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Award-winning US writer Nell Freudenberger's stunning debut collection A collection of five stories, Lucky Girls is set in India and southern Asia. The characters -- rootless, often en route to someplace else -- find themselves variously attracted to or repelled by unfamiliar landscapes where every object seems strange and every emotion is heightened. Living according to alien rules, these characters are also vulnerable in unexpected ways: in the title story, a young woman who has been involved in an affair with an Indian man feels bound to both her memories and her adopted country after his death; the protagonist of 'Outside the Eastern Gate' returns to her childhood home in Delhi to find a house still inhabited by the impulsive, desperate spirit of her mother.

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Ratings: 3.43 From 1156 Users | 138 Reviews

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I picked up Nell Freudenberger's third book, "The Newlyweds," simply because I was intrigued by the premise. I had no idea who the author was, no idea there was so much hubbub over her ten years ago when she became the It Girl other young writers loved to hate. Anyway, I loved "The Newlyweds" and eagerly bought her first book, "Lucky Girls." MAYBE I shouldn't have read all the articles about her path to publishing before I started "Lucky Girls." Maybe, just maybe, it colored my opinion. But I

I picked up Nell Freudenberger's third book, "The Newlyweds," simply because I was intrigued by the premise. I had no idea who the author was, no idea there was so much hubbub over her ten years ago when she became the It Girl other young writers loved to hate. Anyway, I loved "The Newlyweds" and eagerly bought her first book, "Lucky Girls." MAYBE I shouldn't have read all the articles about her path to publishing before I started "Lucky Girls." Maybe, just maybe, it colored my opinion. But I

This book exemplified why I don't like short stories. They always feel they taper off into nothing-- no conclusion, no plot wrap-up. What's the point of reading them when there's such frustration in the lack of outcome?

Short stories are not my thing. But these I appreciated less than most. For one thing the people are amoral and often cretins, IMHO. Immaturity is rife. And I would not name any as lucky girls at all. Not in any definition of my connotation for "lucky". I gave her latest novel a 5 star. She's sure come a long way. These seem teenager-ish to me. Or poor little rich girl diatribes. Ugh!

Lucky Girls by Nell Freudenberger generated a lot of attention when it first came out and not necessarily for its merits (see all the hating reivews on Amazon). It seems that Freudenberger was an intern at The New Yorker, which chose to run one of her stories and it also turns out that she has had somewhat of a privileged life being a young attractive woman with a degree from Harvard as well as a big advance for a book based on the short stories in her collection Lucky Girls. As for the writing,

I enjoyed the stories more than loved them until I came to the last one, which for me vaulted the collection to another realm. It's clear Freudenberger is a writer of both great taste and great talent; I for one won't let a book of hers hit the shelves without sooner or later arriving in my to-read pile.

An incredibly strong first collection. Most of the settings involve an ex-pat in Asia dealing with various circumstances. While the storylines are simple, she excels at bringing you close to the situation to better understand rationals.