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Him Her Him Again The End of Him
Patricia Marx
Scribner
January 2007
On Sale: January 9, 2007
240 pages
ISBN: 0743296230
EAN: 9780743296236
Hardcover
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Marx's unabashedly neurotic heroine falls for philosopher
Eugene Obello during her grad-uate school days in Cambridge,
England. Why would anyone fall for a man who receives a
grant to pursue Ego Studies? Why would that person remain
obsessed, even after this guy marries and becomes a father?
By "obsessed," we mean, well...sex and lusting and longing
and hoping and waiting for this cad who is spread too thin.
Her friends loathe him. Why can't she drop him? Is it
because she was the only virgin on campus before she bumped
into Eugene (a man who was hardly a virgin)? Is it because
he kept a copy of the Magna Carta in his pocket? "You know
what I think it really was?" she reflects. "He was a
narcissist. I love narcissists...you don't have to buoy them
up." When things get unbearable, our girl gives up trying to
write her thesis -- and tries to give up on Eugene. She says
good-bye to her dormitory room, decorated in a color she
calls veal, and becomes a TV writer in New York on the hit
sketch-comedy show Taped But Proud. Coincidentally, Eugene
moves to New York as well -- to teach a seminar called
"Toward a Philosophy of the Number Two" ("And if that goes
well," he says, "they might let me have a go at the number
three"). More years of lusting and longing, hoping and
waiting. Until a spectacular event changes everything.
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