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CRITIQUE :: Back When We Were Grownups (964 words) |
 | Back When We Were Grownups isn’t fresh in the sense of the story line. |
| Back When We Were Grownups presents a good question, a good argument, and then a good answer. |
| Back When We Were Grownups is a good book, but good in a way that leaves the reader less than satisfied. |
| "Back When We Were Grownups" by Anne Tyler - Salon (771 words) |
| The rekindled romance turns out to be a bust; Rebecca realizes that not only has she lost any scholarly inclinations but she also can't be bothered to read past her horoscope and Dear Abby in the newspaper; and ultimately she embraces her life as she has lived it. |
| I used to think of Tyler as the bard of the world's unsung nurturers -- many of them mothers but not all of them women, by any means -- a novelist who enabled them to discover the dignity and rejoice in the rewards of their chronically uncelebrated lives. |
| But reading "Back When We Were Grownups," I began to suspect that she really writes for those of us who feed off them, for people like Rebecca's selfish children. |
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