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...identifiably Jewish, including the crushed glass at the wedding and the honeymoon at a Miami Beach hotel. Lila's worst crimes are eating candy bars in bed and whining, which is understandable, considering that her husband has abandoned her three days into their marriage. Kelly is the blond shiksa dreamgirl (closer to the remake's Lila than to the fair-haired Miranda), whose family is moving out of the Miami Beach hotel because it has "the wrong element" (Jewish) and into a posh social club...
...wandering contrasts nicely with Hex's, who in the course of the evening on which the book is set takes his mother to a restaurant and to a hospital, drunkenly stalks Lou in an effort to convince him to return to Billie, and kindles a romance with the dreamgirl of his adolescence as she falls into his life "like an influenza." All the while, Hex and Billie are haunted by the infrequent but always searingly memorable references to Hex's dad, long-deceased ex-nuclear scientist. Allen Raitcliffe. Yet somehow the decisions and bizarre events of the evening seem...
...DREAMGIRL, Wilson...
...DREAMGIRL, Wilson...
...last time she was heard on a Network program, her voice was so alluring that an anonymous admire felt urged to telephone the studio and pronounce her his "dreamgirl." But the idealistic Lochinvar insisted that he did not want a date with her, lest it spoil the illusion...