Rules for Saying Goodbye

by Katherine Taylor

Book Overview

In the world of Kate Taylor, heroine of Rules for Saying Goodbye, pleasure and melancholy are close neighbors--like the summer hats and lobster boilers squashed together in the tiny closet of her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374252718
• ISBN13: 9780374252717
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Great Read

I am an old fart who loves to read and have the time to do so. Well I loved the style, the content and all of it. Refreshing to see a new and talented writer with wit and humor. Keep going Katherine, if you can keep an old guy interested from front to back cover in the adventures of a mid twenties jet setter, just imagine your potential audience. Loved it

This is some funny a** sh**!

Though I'm more prone to picking up a mystery novel than I am to reading satire about the globetrotting tales of a woman who is a 20-something Manhattan MFA grad, this book had me laughing out loud. The pace is quick, as is the wit. I can't wait to see how Taylor follows up this great book! Thanks for the great read. Brent (B. Billy) Curtis Secluded Parking - Official ABNA Entrant

A comedy of manners for our own time

This funny, lively, sharply observed book satisfies on all levels. Taylor takes the picaresque approach in updating the comedy-of-manners genre for our own time as we follow one young woman's education in the ways of the world through fifteen years' worth of adventures in the high life, the low life, and points in between. Taylor gives us the parties, the heartbreaks, the perils of too much money and not enough money, the good sex and the bad sex, the friendships made and broken and made again, as well as the maddening, schizophrenic see-sawings of basic family life. The dialogue is note-perfect; the book rings true in its portrayal of all the complex business between men and women, and Taylor is especially deft at capturing the shades and degrees and murk of emotion. If the book seems to be "mere" fun at first, read on; the stakes get higher, the fun becomes desperate, and we're ultimately rewarded with a convincing and moving portrait of a woman in the throes and aftermath of a genuine meltdown in her life. Taylor gives us not only the stuff we want to know--the parties, the sex, the wicked good fun--but also the stuff we need to know when we're trying to make sense of the ample human talent for messing up our lives.

Love it!

I can't wait to get back to this book. I started reading it this weekend and it is amazing how it feels like I am talking right to the author. She is witty and real and interesting and it has been a LONG time since a book sucked me in so quickly and had me excited about picking it up again at my first free moment.

Very Interesting Book, Highly Recommended

To be honest, this book is out of my usual genre, I only read it because I was trying to cozy up to a Woman who I noticed was reading it. My tactic failed, the book did not. This author has the ability to lull you into what you think will be a stylistic and breezy read, and then without changing style or demeanor, she somehow drops an anvil on your head. I'd say she has a real talent for communicating life's follies, both the one's you laugh about with friends, and the one's you keep buried in shame. Its the type of book that stays with you for a while.