Hey all,
I’ll be heading home from NY tomorrow. The trip was awesome! I’ll share more when I get back.
In the meantime, I was given a couple ARC’s for a new book by Theresa Rebeck called Three Girls and Their Brother.
Book Description
Now that it’s all over, everybody is saying it was the picture–that stupid picture was behind every disaster. . . .
They may be the granddaughters of a famous literary critic, but what really starts it all is Daria, Polly, and Amelia Heller’s stunning red hair. Out of the blue one day, The New Yorker calls and says that they want to feature the girls in a glamorous spread shot by a world-famous photographer, and before long these three beautiful nobodies from Brooklyn have been proclaimed the new “It†girls.
But with no parental guidance–Mom’s a former beauty queen living vicariously through her daughters, and Dad is nowhere to be found–the three girls find themselves easy prey for the sharks and piranhas of show business. Posing in every hot fashion magazine, tangling with snarling fashonistas and soulless agents, skipping school and hitting A-list parties, the sisters are caught up in a whirlwind rise to fame that quickly spirals out of control.
When Amelia, the youngest of the three–who never really wanted to be a model in the first place–appears in an Off-Broadway play, the balance of power shifts, all the pent-up resentment and pressure comes to a head, and the girls’ quiet, neglected brother reaches a critical point of virtual breakdown. And against the odds, even as the struggle for fame threatens to tear the family apart, the Hellers begin to see that despite the jealousy, greed, and uncertainty that have come to define their relationships, in the celebrity world of viciousness and betrayal, all they really have is one another.
Narrated in four parts, from the perspective of each sibling, Three Girls and Their Brother is a sharp, perceptive, and brilliantly written debut novel from an acclaimed playwright.
About the Author
THERESA REBECK’s plays include Bad Dates, Omnium Gatherum (a Pulitzer finalist), The Scene, and Mauritius, which won Boston’s prestigious IRNE and Elliot Norton Award and premiered on Broadway in 2007. Rebeck has also won the Peabody, the Writer’s Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama, the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award, the National Theatre Conference Award, and the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award. She holds a Ph.D. from Brandeis University and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.
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I’ve got two ARCs, so shout out if you’d like to toss your hat in for one. 
TTYS!
Sandi,
My daughter picked your name out of the hat so please send me your addy, and I’ll send you an ARC of TSATB.
Sylvia
on April 1st, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Sharmi,
My daughter picked your name out of “the hat” so please send me your addy, and I’ll send you one of the ARCs.
Sylvia
on April 1st, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Glad you’re back and had a great time! No need to count me in, but the book does sound pretty interesting!
on April 1st, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Count me in!
on March 31st, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Throw my name in the hat.
on March 31st, 2008 at 2:22 am
This sounds like an interesting study in family.
I’m glad you had a good time in NY.
Sandi
on March 31st, 2008 at 1:45 am
Count me in!
on March 31st, 2008 at 12:03 am
Hi! I loved reading about your trip! It sounded so interesting. I enjoy New York every time I go but am always so happy to get home to the quiet when I’m done!
I’d love a chance to win..thanks!!
on March 30th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Hi Sylvia - glad to hear you had a nice trip. I’d love the chance to win Three Girls and Their Brother.
on March 30th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Sounds good, but don’t count me in. I’m trying to whiddle down my tbr pile. Thanx though.
I did want to tell you (finally!) read “Passion For Him” and absolutely LOVED it! My favorite SD book so far. It was so wildly romantic, emotional and sexy. My favorite kind of book. I’ll be posting my review later this week.
Fabulous job Sylvia!
on March 30th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Looks good - count me in!
on March 30th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Can’t wait to hear more about your trip. This book sounds intriguing and I’d like to throw my name in the hat, please.
on March 30th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
This sounds very interesting. I am glad that your trip was great!
on March 30th, 2008 at 1:37 pm