Pulitzer prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman and novelist-journalist Patricia O'Brien provide a thoughtful, deeply personal look at the enduring bonds of friendship between women. Friends for twenty-seven years, they have served as confessors and advisers to each other during romantic, career, and child-raising crises, and have shopped together, laughed together, and enjoyed a bond unlike any other.
Drawing on interviews with numerous women, the authors take readers into the heart of "the place where women do the work of their lives, the growing, the understanding, the reflection," and illuminate both the fragility and strength of relationships that are irreplaceable lifelines.
I KNOW JUST WHAT YOU MEAN WILL STRIKE A CHORD WITH WOMEN OF ALL AGES.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
What I Know About My Friend Pat
What I Know About My Friend Ellen
Introduction
1 • Beginnings
2 • We Talk, Therefore We Are...Friends
3 • Why Are Men's Friendships So Different?
4 • Taking Chances
5 • Playtime
6 • What's a Little Competition Between Friends?
7 • Are We Traveling in Different Directions?
8 • The Bad Stuff
9 • We're in It Together
10 • Testing the Limits
11 • The Wider Circle: Friends and Family
12 • The Long Run
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
