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Trophy Wives
455 pages, Paperback
First published November 19, 1998
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April 26, 2015
I read this book although I don't like soccer. So I can't judge on those parts and I also don't follow any celebrities' lifestyles.
I was much more impressed than I'd expected - the start of the book introduces us to people who seem fairly stereotypical overpriced football players, and their wives who are chosen for attractiveness and party stamina rather than brains. But some of these women do have brains, and some have very big hearts.
As the book progresses we don't come to admire the men much, but they are pressured by their sport to conform to certain behaviours which do not make for a stable home.
Two of the women in particular had stories which just grabbed me although at first they didn't seem like anyone I would want to know. One lady was a Page Three model and the newspaper had even, for a publicity stunt, insured her assets. While newspapers don't look great in most of the book, when something goes wrong the paper is kindness itself and this lady has a very tough time but comes out with her head high. Another lady is just self-destructing with relationship and identity problems, she is drinking and taking drugs as though she doesn't care if she never wakes up again. Then something happens to stop her in her tracks and she starts to think more about someone else than about herself. Her life turns around.
Don't go into this looking for scandals, look for the people. The author made me care about these two women in particular, much more than the characters in many supposed women's novels. She wrote skilfully with an obvious depth of background and while I didn't care if the team won the trophy, that wasn't really the point of the book.
I was much more impressed than I'd expected - the start of the book introduces us to people who seem fairly stereotypical overpriced football players, and their wives who are chosen for attractiveness and party stamina rather than brains. But some of these women do have brains, and some have very big hearts.
As the book progresses we don't come to admire the men much, but they are pressured by their sport to conform to certain behaviours which do not make for a stable home.
Two of the women in particular had stories which just grabbed me although at first they didn't seem like anyone I would want to know. One lady was a Page Three model and the newspaper had even, for a publicity stunt, insured her assets. While newspapers don't look great in most of the book, when something goes wrong the paper is kindness itself and this lady has a very tough time but comes out with her head high. Another lady is just self-destructing with relationship and identity problems, she is drinking and taking drugs as though she doesn't care if she never wakes up again. Then something happens to stop her in her tracks and she starts to think more about someone else than about herself. Her life turns around.
Don't go into this looking for scandals, look for the people. The author made me care about these two women in particular, much more than the characters in many supposed women's novels. She wrote skilfully with an obvious depth of background and while I didn't care if the team won the trophy, that wasn't really the point of the book.
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