List Written by Jennifer Weiner - audio book performed by Karen Ziemba - Abridged Fiction - 5 COMPACT DISCS - 5 hours Publisher, Simon & Schuster Audioworks (August 2005) Listen to an audio clip. NOTE: You will need RealPlayer Basic to listen. It's FREE ! Listen to a QuickTime audio clip. Excerpts from an interview with Jennifer Weiner: Why did you decide to write In Her Shoes from different points of view? Do you have a favorite character? How did your sister respond to In Her Shoes? Tell us about the film adaptation of In Her Shoes. Meet Rose Feller. She's thirty years old and a high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her that she's beautiful. She also dreams of getting her fantastically screwed-up little sister to get her life together. Meet Rose's sister, Maggie. Twenty-eight years old, drop-dead gorgeous and only occasionally employed. Although her dreams of big-screen stardom haven't progressed, Maggie dreams of fame and fortune -- and of getting her dowdy big sister to stick to a skin-care regime. These two women with nothing in common but a childhood tragedy, shared DNA, and the same size feet, are about to learn that their family is more different than they ever imagined, and that they're more alike than they'd ever believe. In Her Shoes observes Rose and Maggie, the brain and the beauty, as they make journeys of discovery. Along the way, they'll encounter a wild cast of characters and they'll borrow shoes and clothes and boyfriends, and make peace with their most intimate enemies -- each other. Funny and poignant, In Her Shoes will speak to anyone who has endured the bonds of big -- or little -- sisterhood, or longed for a life different from the one the world has dictated, and dreamed of trying something else on for size. About the Author: Jennifer Weiner made her debut with Good in Bed in 2001. Her second book, In Her Shoes, is now a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine. Little Earthquakes, published in 2004, has been optioned by Universal Pictures. Goodnight Nobody is her fourth novel and first mystery. Jen graduated from Princeton University and worked as a columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer; the newspaper to which she still occasionally contributes. Her work has also appeared in Glamour, Seventeen, Redbook, TV Guide, YM, and Salon.com. Jennifer grew up in Connecticut and now lives in Philadelphia with her family. |
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