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The Gift [Import] [Hardcover]

David Flusfeder (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate; 1st Ed. (U.K.) edition (2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0007140800
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007140800
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,253,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Promising start, but drags on, August 13, 2004
This review is from: The Gift: A Novel (Hardcover)
Phillip is a bit of a loser: after a knee injury his promising football career goes to pieces, his job as a creative writer means writing manuals for Korean bread making machines, his house is too expensive, his car too old, his father a left-over communist and his attempts to be a Tao master of love making to his wife Alice fail all the time. And worst of all, Alice and Phillip have this absolutely wonderful, creative gay couple of friends who always come up with The Perfect Gift. Phillip becomes obsessed with giving perfect gifts in return, but somehow he fails most of the time (for example: buying a beautiful organic food picknick hamper including an enormous smoked ham for a vegetarian). In the process of finding the perfect gift he nearly loses all that is dear to him in life.

The book starts of as a really nice read, but after the first part (halfway through the book), the developments become either more of the same or unrealistic and, despite the sometimes hilarious character sketches, the last half of the book could not really hold my attention.
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After the weekend was over, when we were driving home from Barry and Sean's house and the twins were at last beginning to whisper themselves to sleep in the back seat, I said to my wife that we must buy our hosts something. Read the first page
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