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    Coming Out

    Written by Danielle Steel

    Narrated by David Garrison

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    About this audiobook

    Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has a busy legal career, a solid marriage, and a way of managing her thriving family with grace, humor, and boundless energy. With twin daughters finishing high school, a son at Dartmouth, and a kindergartner from her second marriage, there seems to be no challenge to which Olympia cannot rise. Until one sunny day in May, when she opens an invitation for her daughters to attend the most exclusive coming-out ball in New York-and chaos erupts all around her. One twin's excitement is balanced by the other's outrage; her previous husband's profound snobbism is in sharp contrast to her current husband's flat refusal to attend.

    For Olympia's husband, Harry, whose parents survived the Holocaust, the idea of a blue-blood debutante ball is abhorrent. Her daughter Veronica, a natural-born rebel, agrees- while Veronica's identical twin, Virginia, is already shopping for the perfect dress. Then there's Olympia's ex, an insufferable snob, who sees the ball as the perfect opportunity for a family feud. And amid all the hubbub, Olympia's college-age son, Charlie, is facing a turning point in his life-and may need his mother more than ever. But despite it all, Olympia is determined to steer her family through the event until, just days before the cotillion, things begin to unravel with alarming speed.

    From a son's crisis to a daughter's heartbreak, from a case of the chicken pox to a political debate raging in her household, Olympia is on the verge of surrender. And that is when, in a series of startling choices and changes of heart, family, friends, and even a blue-haired teenager all find a way to turn a night of calamity into an evening of magic. As old wounds are healed, barriers are shattered and new traditions are born, and a debutante ball becomes a catalyst for change, revelation, acceptance, and love.

    In a novel that is by turns profound, poignant, moving, and warmly funny, Danielle Steel tells the story of an extraordinary family-finding new ways of letting go, stepping up, and coming out...in the ways that matter most.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 27, 2006
    ISBN9780739313510
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    Danielle Steel

    Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world's most popular authors, with over 650 million copies of her novels sold. Her many international bestsellers include Property of a Noblewoman, Blue, Precious Gifts, Undercover, Country, Prodigal Son, Pegasus, A Perfect Life, and other highly acclaimed novels. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and the children's books Pretty Minnie in Paris and Pretty Minnie in Hollywood.

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    • 5/5
      In this book Olympia a mother of 4 children .. 3 from her first marriage to Chancey who like her came from the Blue.Blood money of old and one 5 yr old son Max to her husband Harry who is Jewish. Her twin daughters get an invitation to a coming out ball just like Olympia did as a young girl. She loved the deb ball when she did it and thought it was a good thing for the girls to do it , when she tells her family about it all hell breaks lose and everything changes between now and the night of the ball. All kinds of fights and troubles ..... leading to surprises things in the end
    • 1/5
      I couldn't get past the info dump on the first five pages. I took to opening up random passages, and found she was writign summaries of scenes instead of telling a story. This is the first Danielle Steele book I have read and it quickly determined this would be the last. The son's big secret was no secret at all, but it was the reason I picked up the book at all. I was interested to see what a romance writer would have to say. Unfortunately, I couldn't even get to that part.
    • 1/5
      A quick, boring, and predictable read from Steel. The characters were very under-developed, the storyline shallow and just nothing to really get entertained about. This is just one of others from Steel I was not at all impressed with.
    • 1/5
      I didn't care for Coming Out by Danielle Steel, about twin girls who get invited to an old-fashioned high society debutante ball. This creates conflict between the girls and their family members: one girl is excited about it, one rebels and refuses to have any part of it, the Jewish stepfather boycotts it due to it being mainly "WASP' society, the mother insists they do it because she herself did it at their age, the holocaust survivor grandmother just wants to have one glam night out, the son finally decides to "come out" (but nobody really cares one way or another). So the plot is very weak and predictable, the characters are shallow and one dimensional, the writing is boring...I just didn't care about any of the characters at all and if this book wasn't so short (less than 200 pages) I never would have finished it. I don't even know why I picked it up - the cover maybe? I haven't read her books in the last five years or so, but I read most of her earlier books as a teenager. Those I found smart and engrossing...what the hell happened? It's almost as if a completely different writer wrote this blah book.
    • 2/5
      'Coming Out' is about adolescence through the eyes of a mother. All she wants is whats best for her children, but sometimes want YOU want isn't always best. Typical teenage dilemmas are dealt with in this story. Steel's writing is good, however for me I've heard it all before so it was a little ordinary. Ordinary in the sense of comparing it to the show "The OC" which teen agnst is non-stop.
    • 3/5
      This is much too short a book to handle all the issues Danielle Steel tries to pull in. (Spoiler) But they all live happily ever after.