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I TAKE YOU : A NOVEL

Eliza Kennedy
WELL USED, PAPERBACK

RM10.00

Explores The Ugly, Dirty, Unconventional Side of Relationships

ISBN 9780099593669
Book Condition WELL USED
Format PAPERBACK
Publisher Vintage
Publication Date 12 May 2016
Pages 416
Weight 0.40 kg
Dimension 20 × 13 × 3 cm
Availability: 2 in stock

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★★ Selected for the Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2015 ★★

★★ Meet Lily Wilder: New Yorker, lawyer extraordinaire, blushing bride. And totally incapable of being faithful to one man ★★
 
Lily’s fiancé Will is a brilliant, handsome archaeologist. Lily is sassy, impulsive, fond of a good drink (or five) and has no business getting married. Lily likes Will, but does she love him? Will loves Lily, but does he know her?
 
In a week from now, Lily and Will are getting married! This weekend, they’ll be leaving New York and jetting down to Florida to spend the week with her family, preparing for the big day, and it’s all brilliantly exciting.
 
As the wedding approaches, Lily’s nights—and mornings, and afternoons—of booze, laughter and questionable decisions become a growing reminder that the happiest day of her life might turn out to be her worst mistake yet. They’re quite the golden couple, her a lawyer at a big firm, him an archaeologist at a top museum, young, attractive, they bring the world to its knees.


And then sometimes Lily gets on her knees, but, ooops, it’s just as likely to be in front of her boss or a random from the bar as it is her fiancé. Lily, you see, is not exactly the monotonous, monogamous type. Instead she likes to sleep around, drink, take drugs and breakdown in tears, all while keeping this a secret from the man she’s supposed to love and while holding down a substantial professional job of course.
 
Unapologetically sexy with the ribald humor of Bridesmaids, this joyously provocative debut introduces a self-assured protagonist you won’t soon forget.
 
Brilliantly executed and endlessly funny, this page-turning debut showcases one of the most winning, irrepressible voices since Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones.
 
I’m getting married. He’s perfect! It’s a disaster.
 
Note to self:
 
Do not tell future-mother-in-law that you got into Harvard Law School by sleeping with the Dean of Admissions.
 
Do not sing Beyonce-style while representing client in major court deposition (actually, that one kinda works).
 
Do not buy into the social construct of fidelity.
 
But hey, for an easy life, do not let Will find out about all the other men (esp. my boss/his boss/his best friend)
 
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Review From The New York Times :
 
Should a woman have sex before marriage? The answer, according to “I Take You,” a salty, lively first novel from Eliza Kennedy, is yes, but only if it’s with half of the wedding party.
 
In the fine tradition of screwball-comedy brides, Kennedy’s protagonist, Lily Wilder, a young Manhattan lawyer, is having serious doubts about getting married. Unlike most of those brides, she warms her cold feet in one bed, office and bar bathroom after another.
 
Lily really, really likes sex with lots of different people — she propositions two friends of her fiancé and sleeps with a third — but a week away, her Key West wedding to Will, a responsible archaeologist, is threatening to end all her fun.
 
No one in Lily’s life thinks she should be getting married. Her mother: “You’re such a . . . a free spirit!” Her grandmother: “He doesn’t know a damned thing about you.” Her former stepmother: “You’re not exactly marriage material.” Her other former stepmother: “A brazen slut.”
 
Her fiancé’s mother, too, objects — though perhaps that can be traced to Lily joking, moments after they met, that she got into Harvard Law by performing oral sex on the dean of admissions. As that crack suggests, Lily is someone who says and does exactly what she wants precisely when she wants to do it, and Kennedy’s first-person narration is frenetic and funny as it bounces along with Lily’s scattered thoughts.
 
(“You know what? Thank God for walls. Whoever put them in this hallway had a lot of foresight. Whoever invented them was a freaking — I slip inside a bathroom and splash water on my face. That’s better.”)
 
The book’s dialogue is crackling, bawdy and modern, and Lily’s compulsion to step over the good-behavior line leads to a few memorable scenes.
 
Several drinks in, when Lily and her best friend, Freddy, are poring over wedding seating charts, they decide “to seat all the left-handers to the right of right-handers.” Lily immediately texts her meek wedding planner: “pls send mass email inquirining re handedness of all guests fyi thx btw yolo tgif.”
 
She goes on: “We put all the bald men together. All the known redheads. All the young children at one table with Will’s mom.”
 
“I Take You” contains many small mysteries — how did Lily land the most patient wedding planner in the world? — and one big one, which is what she thinks about sex.
 
“When a woman chooses to have sex, there’s not always some ulterior motive,” she tells a co-worker. “Sometimes, we just want sex.” Maybe, though that’s a bit like saying Captain Ahab just wanted a good piece of fish.
 
Her friends believe Lily is shattering restrictive notions about femininity with her sexual adventurousness, but that doesn’t quite work: After “Girls” and “Fifty Shades of Grey” — and more than 10 years after the finale of “Sex and the City” — women embracing frequent, careless sex doesn’t seem that radical.
 
It’s more puzzling why she’s giving that up for marriage, and Lily’s motives remain obscure.
 
Kennedy is on much firmer ground, female-empowerment-wise, showing Lily at work.
 
There’s a great scene where Lily becomes frustrated by a condescending male attorney-nemesis who calls her “young lady” and has been “making perfectly clear that I am not, and never will be, his equal,” she thinks.
 
“Letting a man push me around?” Uh-uh. Before she begins undercutting him in a hilarious, audacious way, Lily gives him a big grin. “So sorry. I had a few lady things to take care of,” Lily says. Get yours, girl.
 
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About the Author :
ELIZA KENNEDY attended the University of Iowa and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation she served as a law clerk for a federal judge, then practiced litigation for several years at a prestigious Manhattan law firm. She lives in New York with her husband and son. This is her first novel.
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