Summary and Reviews of The True and Outstanding Adventures of The Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

Media Reviews

Marie Claire Magazine ...will have you speed-dialing your best friend to share this great read.

Time - Lev Grossman Likely to be the first literary surprise of 2004....Tough, tender, and tearful, The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters helps us make sense of it all.

Time Out New York Entertaining....Robinson's take on Tinsletown is exact and carefully shaded. . . . It's a subtle reminder of the amount of hope and humor needed to counter the panic and helplessness when life unravels on all fronts.

New York Times Book Review Wryly effective, capturing the momentum of family sorrow, the ways in which people can care for each other without ever quite coming to terms.

The New York Times - Emily Nussbaum In both her movie and her life, Olivia struggles to provide her sister and herself with an ideal ending -- a perfect moment that will satisfy everyone. But, finally, this book is a paean to the compromises made out of love Olivia may be an unreliable narrator, but as a storyteller she comes through in the clutch.

Kirkus Reviews It's bright, it's clever, and it's going to be a major hit a smashing success with the press and the public....Robinson is enormously skilled at pushing the emotional buttons, but an aftertaste of manipulation lingers. There's also something self-serving about the writing, something frankly very Hollywood about it. But will it sell? Is there balm in Gilead?

Booklist - Kristine Huntley Sparkling with humor and beauty, the novel is ultimately a testament to the bond between the sisters, and the strength of both Olivia and Maddie.

Library Journal Olivia balances a troubled sister, aging parents, and a re-igniting Hollywood career in this admirable debut.

Publishers Weekly Olivia's cynicism, compassion and loyalty come through as funny, real and inspiring, and the novel's epistolary format is smoothly employed. Moving but never maudlin, this is an accomplished debut.

 Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections This is one of the funniest Hollywood novels I've ever read.