{"title": "Foreign Parts", "covers": [801472], "subject_places": ["Scotland", "Normandy (France)", "France"], "first_publish_date": "1994", "key": "/works/OL2535335W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL358624A"}}], "dewey_number": ["823/.914"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "Scots", "Man-woman relationships", "Travelers", "Single women", "Friendship", "New York Times reviewed", "Fiction, general", "France, fiction", "Travel"], "links": [{"url": "http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/01/books/books-in-brief-fiction-318595.html", "title": "New York Times review", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"What begins as a driving holiday in Northern France for two Scotswomen turns into a caustic and funny account of dysfunctional relationships - both between men and women and between women friends. Cassie and Rona - in their late thirties, both single and childless - are on each other's nerves from the moment they cross the Channel: Cassie is testy and cynical, Rona patient and plodding.\n\nBoth are self-conscious of the fact that they seem to fit the stereotype of two \"spinsters\" linked by loneliness, and consequently rebel against the notion that a woman needs a man to feel \"complete.\" Faced with the dilemma of \"fancying men and not liking them very much,\" the women ponder the alternatives as they endure one tourist nightmare after another.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T23:53:27.184348"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-06-02T10:08:53.500998"}}