Really, what could hurt you in here, in this forest of glittering words?" Salon editor Joan Walsh notes that Flanagan is basically Betty Friedan in reverse: "Most mothers, let's remember, don't have the luxury of choosing to stay home full-time, but Flanagan and Friedan belong to the mouthy minority that does".
On the return trip, take note of the glittering facades that dot the waterfront.
But for readers whose talents are less glittering, a gushing dust jacket note that the author "never travels without his mandolin" may be a little much.
If Wellington's glittering attack is to hit the right notes they'll need a new conductor.
"The sky was brilliantly blue and the sunlight on the glittering white stretches of prairie was almost blinding," notes Jim.
Much of the score's glittering detail notably the piano part, which consists of 17,640 notes in a continuous stream was lost in Carnegie's mellow acoustics.
It's significant to note that Messud's characters - a glittering cross-section of New York's uptown intelligentsia - are remarkably similar to those McInerney describes.
That crab composition is a glittering orange dream, with some of the sweetest and briniest notes the sea can offer.
Much of the score's glittering detail — notably the piano part, which consists of 17,640 notes in a continuous stream — was lost in Carnegie's mellow acoustics.
There is the odd, respectfully restrained note to Winston Churchill, along with loquacious missives to Arthur Schlesinger, John Sparrow, David Astor, Richard Wollheim, Violet Bonham Carter, Bernard Berenson and a glittering array of others.
