The Kitchen Man
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.32 (779 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0965457834 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 306 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"A man for all the rooms of the house" according to Sharon Saunders. Women who read this book are very grateful for a male character they can actually like. As a feminist, I think this is extremely important.Gabe is real - smart, funny, not a male model, beset by worries and a MENCH. He tries to do the right thing for the right reasons.Relationships take work and this novel shows people who work constructively.Looking forward to another novel. Are you listening "Woody?". "Be a mensch" according to Alain Lipus. We follow Gabe's dilemma - being a waiter, wanting to be a writer, but becoming a lover to a woman, who should be his employee. Personal matters are splitting him up to the crucial point, when he decides, what's the most important thing in his life. Wood has written a story of life, which often happens in reality, he only added some glamour to it and a happy ending (which is not so common in real life). I like it.. I lost interest in it, towards the end. I really wish that I could agree with the very positive reviews, but after reading mostof the book, I just lost interest in the characters and in the story. I liked it at the beginning,and Ira Wood obviously is an intelligent writer with interesting and humorous observations.And chapter 17 in the book is very funny - a dinner with the family. After reading most of the book,though, I just lost interest in the characters and in the story. So I read the last 30 pages of thebook, just to see how it ended.
Gabe's play, The Kitchen Man , has won some plaudits but no production, while his service at classy Les Neiges d'Antan nets him Best Waiter in Boston. A book to read and relish. P.L., Va.Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Gabriel Rose is a playwright working as a waiter, and his first-person narrative by first-novelist Wood is a wonderful, warm story of a modern man's secret hopes and fears. . Until playwright-director Cynthia Kaganolder, divorced, zaftig, stunning to Gabecomes into his restaurant, takes him into her extended family, and teaches him at last to love himself. Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. But deep down he's still little Gabey, always o
Ira Wood is a publisher as well as the author of two novels The Kitchen Man and Going Public and the co-author (with Marge Piercy) of the erotic thriller Storm Tide. His workshops, given nationwide, emphasize the importance of the writer's craft and overcoming the inner and outer barriers to creativity.
And give yourself a solid month. "Definitely. Where else to find it but at the gilded, overpriced tables of Boston's fanciest restaurant, where crooked politicians, tight Old Money, preppies, parvenus and, of course, the stars come to dine on yesterday's fish under tonight's hollandaise? Under-30 Gabe contrives to meet over-40 Cynthia Kagan, a tough, sexy playwright-director, big in feminist circles…Plot and character are pas de deux under Wood's fast-stepping, always engaging choreography, but how to explain all the sharp and colorful, emotionally honest, sometimes heart-grabbing ensemble work? Besides the fun, The Kitchen Man