The Dirty Girls Social Club [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0786260653 | ISBN-13: 978-0786260652 | Edition: 1

A New York Times Bestseller in English

Inseparable from their days at the University of Boston almost ten years ago, six friends formed The Dirty Girls Social Club, a small society of moral support and admiration. They meet regularly to gossip, eat, and compare notes on the complicated ways of life and love . . . and they have a lot of catching up to do!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist and a former staff writer for both the Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. She was one of Latina magazine’s women of the year for 2002. She lives with her husband and son in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is her first novel.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 643 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press; 1 edition (January 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786260653
• ISBN-13: 978-0786260652
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,337,809 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly a 100% latina book, March 25, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: El Club Social de las Chicas Temerarias (Paperback)

The book is ok, it exemplifies the lives of many latina women in the US and how they interact with each other due to their different scenarios...but let me ask something, who translated this book????? I am from Puerto Rico, one of my closest friends is from Venezuela, my best friend is from Cuba and my boyfriend's best friend is from Colombia....and let me tell you, all the characters talk as if they were from Spain or some Spanish speaking country I apparently have not heard of...Now, I'm not saying that the book is bad, its good in a way that it demonstrates how all these women have held together and been through a lot of ordeals and always stuck together through thick and thin, but the translators did an AWFUL job on this one...It's a book that its easy to read, but does not show how different all these women are culturally...

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Mas vale no leerlo, October 26, 2008

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Richard Nash Creel "Diogenes" (NC, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: El Club Social de las Chicas Temerarias (Paperback)

Como se ve en la sinopsis del libro en ingles, por una lectura (muy breve, para no sufrir excesivamente), se confirma el comentario en el sentido de que la autora, en efecto, carece de toda pretension literaria, ya que pasta de escritora no tiene ni habra tenido nunca, solo de ensuciadora de laminitas de celulosa sacrificada para permitirle emitir sus zonceras. Para colmo de males, este libro sale en casi todas las busquedas, como basura indeseada y estorbante. Habria sido tal vez mas interesante de haberlo escrito en castellano la tipa, pero eso, sin duda alguna, habria sido pedirle peras al olmo. No gasten plata en este simulacro literario, indigno de ni un minuto de lectura.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Su Aceptaran Nuevas Socias?, June 22, 2005

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C. M Tye (Somewhere in Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: El Club Social de las Chicas Temerarias (Paperback)

Maravilloso, novela entri ficcion y cargado de situaciones reales, desde la carcajada mas amplia, media sonrisa, angustia, lagrimas, etc.. esta historia te transmite cada una de estas experiencias y vives a la expectativa entr ecapitulo y capitulo.

No lo puedes dejar de leer y una vez que lo terminas.... Porque se acabo?!?!

si es un libro femenino. intensamente rico, creo que todas deberiamos de tener un club y por supuesto... SeR TemeRarias!