Second Chances (Sweet Dreams, No. 94)
Joanne moves from a tiny Alaska town to California to further her art education. There she encounters MTV, malls, funky clothes and video games for the first time. She falls for the quarterback's brother and learns to be true to herself. The style is wooden, the sentences short and choppy and the moralizing blatant. " 'You're saying I have to be true to myself in my artwork, just the way I'm learning to be true to myself when I'm with other people. . . .Wow, Tony,' Joanne cried, 'what a brilliant insight!' "Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.