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In her acclaimed debut novel, Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld created a touchstone with her pitch-perfect portrayal of adolescence. Her prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman's fantasies of family and love with the challenges and realities of adult life.

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©2006 Curtis Sittenfeld (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

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Long and drawn out with no climax

I don't really have a lot to say about this book except that it didn't meet my expectations after reading Prep from the same author, which I thought was much more entertaining.

Aside from that, I have never heard a New Zealand accent butchered so badly in my life. I literally cringed every time Anne Heche attempted it. I can't believe the author approved that mess.