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Maxwell, who reunited with her boyfriend Curtis in 1982, decided to travel with him to France, where her older sister lived...
...banalities. And he knows that anyone familiar with his work probably wouldn't believe him, anyway. After all, he's the guy who wrote The Distance From Here, in which a teenager drowns a baby in a penguin pool; The Shape of Things, in which a student manipulates her boyfriend into changing his appearance and ditching his friends for a college art project; and The Mercy Seat, in which a man uses the 9/11 attacks as a cover to disappear with his mistress. LaBute refuses to judge any of his characters. He likes nothing better than to test how fine...
...hate your hips? Your butt? Be careful what you say. Self-contempt passes from generation to generation. Just recently, on a New York State college campus, Emily, 20, recoiled when her boyfriend squeezed her, exclaiming, "I love your arms!" Emily hated them. "My mother thought her arms were fat and flabby," she explains. "She'd never wear anything sleeveless. I thought that I was like...
Oddly enough, he was right. The four would-be suicides are Martin, a disgraced talk-show host; JJ, a failed rock musician; Jess, a teenager who just got dumped by her boyfriend; and Maureen, a middle-aged shut-in with a severely disabled son. Momentarily distracted from self-destruction, the four get to comparing notes. (Maureen is immediately judged the top gun, misery-wise. "Oh, yeah," says Jess. "That's a no-brainer. Don't change your mind. You'd only regret it.") They decide to put off jumping and instead form a bickering, wary, ad hoc fellowship...
...them), the book reads as both a slice of life story and comic send-up. The story takes place over two hot summer days when Ingrid, a young woman whose mind is "wired for self-destruct," according to her girlfriend, runs into Mark, her cheating ex-boyfriend. Mark invites her to hang out with his friends the following evening, and Ingrid, who has a boyfriend, hedges at first but finds herself considering it. Meanwhile, Mark, who made up the story of meeting friends out of thin air, has to get at least one person to accompany him on his stealth...