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Edited by Thomas Beller...
Personals thrusts the reader into a whirlwind of activity; amid the confessions and recollections, one enters the life of every one of the writers, knows each of them intimately, faces their problems and rejoices at the resolutions. Gathering the novel together, Thomas Beller asked each writer to write a story about something that matters to them. The result: a wide-ranging account of contemporary life. Almost as impressive as the sheer variety of topics and the sincerity with which they are presented, is the range of writing styles used to illustrate the points of the essays...
Sixteen members of the group will be traveling by bus to New York tonight. NBC will pay for their hotel accommodations, according to group member Marcy E. Beller...
...Beller's great accomplishment, however, is that he has managed to weave a series of touching and exceptionally memorable tales from this familiar milieu. All in all, Beller's characters are an indecisive lot who pursue desire with the sort of tremulousness that almost always ensures their solitude. In The Hot Dog War a young man who fixates on a beautiful woman he meets on the street cannot help bringing his best friend along on their first and only date. In Nondestructive Testing a former divinity-school student turned office temp is entranced by a comely receptionist until she makes...
Interspersed with these vignettes of urban romance are a few stories that provide a psychological history for Beller's characters. These pieces trace the young adulthood of Alex Fader, a fatherless only child who tries hard to suppress his love for an often elusive mother. Ultimately, though, Alex forges an enviable closeness with her, and that leaves the reader with hope for all the floundering, grownup versions of him in this spirited collection...