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Him Her Him Again The End of Him
Patricia Marx
Scribner
January 2008
On Sale: January 1, 2008
256 pages ISBN: 0743296249 EAN: 9780743296243 Paperback
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Patricia Marx is one of the finest comic writers of her
time, as readers of The New Yorker and fans of
Saturday Night Live already know. Her fiction debut
is an endlessly entertaining comic novel about one woman's
romantic fixation on her first boyfriend. Marx's
unabashedly neurotic heroine falls for philosopher Eugene
Obello during her graduate 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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