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The Last Girls
The Last Girls
Author: Lee Smith
On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huck Finn's) on a trip down the Mississippi. It's Girls A-Go-Go Down the Mississippi read the headline in the Paducah, Kentucky, paper. Thirty-five years later, four of those "girls" reunite to cruise t...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781565124059
ISBN-10: 1565124057
Publication Date: 1/2003
Pages: 400
Rating:
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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3.3 stars, based on 43 ratings
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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reviewed The Last Girls on + 10 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
This book was "OK". I enjoyed getting to know the characters, which I thought were a little odd, but it sort of left me wanting to know more, as if something was missing. Not one of my most favorite reads, but it's an interesting story of old friends looking back at the past, and we see how their lives turned out after many years.
LadyBook81 avatar reviewed The Last Girls on + 60 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I couldn't get into this book and only made it through the first 3 chapters.
DsuzieC avatar reviewed The Last Girls on + 159 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
A Drama novel...I have a hard time staying focused on straight drama. It's about a group of girls and their lives through womanhood...romance, memories, etc.
reviewed The Last Girls on + 711 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Rich and delicious....the story of four women....years ago, they were girls, not women---the last generation of American females to be called "girls"---who traveled down the Mississippi River...on a makeshift raft while they were on summer vacation...There were twelve of them on that rip; now there are these four, brought together by tragedy. One of their classmates...has died in an automobile wreck (was it really an accident?), and her husband has asked the old friends to re-create the river journey and scatter her ashes at the mouth of the Mississippi...It's a reunion of classmates with all of the in-between revealed in intimate detail, as only a skilled and classy storyteller can do it.
reviewed The Last Girls on + 9 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Chic lit through and through...old college chums of a certain age going on a reunion cruise on an old-style river boat, renewing old friendships,new adventures, walking down memory lane...it is a good one.
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MKSbooklady avatar reviewed The Last Girls on + 937 more book reviews
This book dragged on longer than a 27 episode miniseries. I was never quite sure who was who. Started out full of hope, but ended up sad.
justreadingabook avatar reviewed The Last Girls on + 1707 more book reviews
This was a very slow moving story that really didn't develop well, it takes a group of girls from college that took a Huckleberry Finn trip down the Mississippi and are reliving it somewhat to spread the ashes of one of their friends.
It is the back and forth in time that is very confusing and disorienting to the reader.
Just don't understand how this became a New York Times Best Seller.
novelswapper avatar reviewed The Last Girls on + 16 more book reviews
Some reviewers instruct the new reader to sit back, relax and enjoy the trip. That being said, the author gives us a bit of a look at the bond of women who define themselves as friends to each other with the fierce loyalty and frank honesty long-time women friends have for each other


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