Word: nantucketer
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...against the difficulty of actually doing it--underscores the comic principle that animates Hecht's first collection of fiction. Her narrator ought to be happy, or at least fulfilled. She and her architect husband have an apartment in Manhattan, a house in East Hampton and a summer rental on Nantucket. She can afford a small army of expensive people--psychiatrists, opticians, periodontists, endodontists, exercise trainers, floor renovators--to minister to her and her possessions' needs. Yet in spite of all this--or perhaps because of it--she is a psychological wreck...
...helplessly fascinated and regularly appalled by the physical appearance of things. There is, for instance, the "hideous" building in Manhattan where her husband works. "When you see this building you can think only one thing. 'WHY?' is the thing. 'Why? Why? Why?'" A Nantucket neighbor's exercise pants elicit the same befuddlement: "Why wear anything like that on these hot summer days...
...underscores the comic principle that animates Julie Hecht's first collection of fiction (Random House; 212 pages; $21). Her narrator ought to be happy, or at least fulfilled. She and her architect husband have an apartment in Manhattan, a house in East Hampton and a summer rental on Nantucket. She can afford a small army of expensive people -- psychiatrists, opticians, periodontists, endodontists, exercise trainers, floor renovators -- to minister to her and her possessions? needs. Yet in spite of all this -- or perhaps because of it -- she is a psychological wreck. But unlike so many contemporary fictional neurotics...
...underscores the comic principle that animates Julie Hecht's first collection of fiction (Random House; 212 pages; $21). Her narrator ought to be happy, or at least fulfilled. She and her architect husband have an apartment in Manhattan, a house in East Hampton and a summer rental on Nantucket. She can afford a small army of expensive people -- psychiatrists, opticians, periodontists, endodontists, exercise trainers, floor renovators -- to minister to her and her possessions? needs. Yet in spite of all this -- or perhaps because of it -- she is a psychological wreck. But unlike so many contemporary fictional neurotics...
First and Scott, who are not yet 30, are referred to as "Tom and Tom." Al-Jubeir says the Nantucket Nectars founders were mistaken as students by one member who asked the two casually dressed men whether they had come to hear Tom and Tom speak...