Patricia Marx is one of the finest comic writers of her time, as
readers of "The New Yorker" and fans of "Saturday Night Live"
already know. Her fiction debut is an endlessly entertaining comic
novel about one woman's romantic fixation on her first boyfriend.
Marx's unabashedly neurotic heroine falls for philosopher Eugene
Obello during her graduate school days in Cambridge, England. Why
would anyone fall for a man who receives a grant to pursue Ego
Studies? Why would that person remain obsessed, even after this guy
marries and becomes a father? By "obsessed," we mean, well...sex
and lusting and longing and hoping and waiting for this cad who is
spread too thin. Her friends loathe him. Why can't she drop him? Is
it because she was the only virgin on campus before she bumped into
Eugene (a man who was hardly a virgin)? Is it because he kept a
copy of the Magna Carta in his pocket? "You know what I think it
really was?" she reflects. "He was a narcissist. I love
narcissists...you don't have to buoy them up." When things get
unbearable, our girl gives up trying to write her thesis -- and
tries to give up on Eugene. She says good-bye to her dormitory
room, decorated in a color she calls veal, and becomes a TV writer
in New York on the hit sketch-comedy show "Taped But Proud."
Coincidentally, Eugene moves to New York as well -- to teach a
seminar called "Toward a Philosophy of the Number Two" ("And if
that goes well," he says, "they might let me have a go at the
number three"). More years of lusting and longing, hoping and
waiting. Until a spectacular event changes everything.
General
Imprint: |
Scribner Book Company
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2007 |
First published: |
2008 |
Authors: |
Patricia Marx
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Dimensions: |
201 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7432-9624-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-7432-9624-9 |
Barcode: |
9780743296243 |
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