Take one unabashedly neurotic American girl and put her in the dusty world of post-graduate Cambridge, where she is the only virgin on campus. Introduce her to Eugene Obello: philosopher, narcissist and cad; recipient of a grant to pursue Ego Studies. The result? The kind of twisted, compulsive, all-consuming passion that will endure separation, marriage (his), parenthood (his), and countless affairs (all his). Her friends loathehim. Why can't she drop him? Even moving back home to Philadelphia doesn't help; nor landing a ...
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Take one unabashedly neurotic American girl and put her in the dusty world of post-graduate Cambridge, where she is the only virgin on campus. Introduce her to Eugene Obello: philosopher, narcissist and cad; recipient of a grant to pursue Ego Studies. The result? The kind of twisted, compulsive, all-consuming passion that will endure separation, marriage (his), parenthood (his), and countless affairs (all his). Her friends loathehim. Why can't she drop him? Even moving back home to Philadelphia doesn't help; nor landing a script-writing job in New York, on the hit sketch-comedy programme Taped But Proud. Coincidentally, Eugene also moves to New York, to teach a seminar entitled 'Towards a Philosophy of the Number Two'. Cue more lusting and longing, hoping and waiting. Until a spectacular event changes everything . . .
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A friend of me told me that this was the funniest book she had ever read. I think, in retrospect that the key part of this was that it was a "she" who told me this. It's not 'chick-lit' in any sense, in that it is mocking over educated people, and melodramatic romance.
It's clever, but, as the saying goes, "too clever by half." (I don't actually know what that saying means.)
I didn't really enjoy this book, quite frankly but I do see that it's the kind of book many folks could appreciate. Therefore, I am recommending it tepidly. Marx is a talented writer, and hopefully her other works will be more appealing to me.
StephKaye
Apr 3, 2007
A Tale Told by an Air-Head
A frothy little romp recounted by a grad-school flake. I connected more with the futility of the grad school experience than with the vapidity of the narrator, but it's a fun read.