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June 2009
On Sale: June 9, 2009
366 pages
ISBN: 0061715654
EAN: 9780061715655
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Non-Fiction
Anne Rosenbaum leads a life of quiet Los Angeles privilege,
the wife of Hollywood executive Howard Rosenbaum and mother
of their seventeen-year-old son, Sam. Years ago Anne and
Howard met studying litera-ture at Columbia—she, the
daughter of a British diplo-mat from London, he a boy from
an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. Now on sleek
blue California evenings, Anne attends halogen-lit movie
premieres on the arm of her powerful husband. But her
private life is lived in the world of her garden, reading
books. When one of Howard's friends, the head of a studio, asks
Anne to make a reading list, she casually agrees—though, as
a director reminds her, "no one reads in Hollywood." To her
surprise, they begin calling: screen-writers; producers,
from their bungalows; and agents, from their plush offices
on Wilshire and Beverly. Soon Anne finds herself leading an
exclusive book club for the industry elite. Emerging
gradually from her seclu-sion, she guides her readers into
the ideas and beauties of Donne, Yeats, Auden, and Mamet,
with her brilliant and increasingly bold opinions. But when
a crisis of identity unexpectedly turns an anguished Howard
back toward the Orthodoxy he left behind as a young man,
Anne must set out to save what she values above all else:
her husband's love. At once fiercely intelligent and emotionally grip-ping, You
or Someone Like You confronts the fault lines between
inherited faith and personal creed, and, through the
surprising transformation of one exceptional, unfor-
gettable woman, illuminates literature's power to change
our lives.
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