Word: adamancy
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Part of the problem with The Boys and Their Baby is that it's difficult to sympathize with the main character. He seems like he has so many problems, but when you get right down to it and analyze them, they seem so meaningless. Adam Berg, is a 30 year old Yale graduate who just can't deal with his real world. It's not as if Adam has AIDS or is penniless or something. He is merely upset that his mother has remarried a man he doesn't like. And he is upset to find out that his girlfriend...
...might be possible to sympathize with Adam and the things that disturb him if he were about 15 years younger. The Boys and Their Baby might turn into a sort of 1980s Catcher In The Rye. But Adam is 30 years old, a college graduate, yet he seems completely incapable of making decisions on his own. So what does Adam do? Like a typical child who can't handle his problems, Adam just picks up and leaves Boston, fleeing to San Francisco where he moves in with his college roomate with whom he hasn't spoken in over a decade...
...Francisco, Adam lives with Huck, who somehow maganes to be raising a one-year old child, Christopher. Adam wonders who the child's mother is. But he doesn't ask. Then, this woman Lucille, who refuses to wear anything but men's tuxedos begins to show up in Adam's room at bizarre hours of the night, just to make love to him and then leave as mysteriously as she enters. Adam sees her during the day, but he is unwilling to ask her where their relationship stands. He does not even presume to think that they are lovers...
Other strange and bizzare experiences mark Adam's time in San Francisco. He begins teaching at the Stringfellow School for privileged high school students, and one of the boys in his advanced English literature class begins to follow him around and eventually attempts to begin a romantic affair. Meanwhile, he becomes lovers with Amy Armstrong, the physics teacher at the school, who was also a Yale classmate. Amy's only distinction is that she has a fetish with suede shoes--and she places them at the foot of the bed each time they have sex so that her footwear...
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