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Benjamin Kunkel’s brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our time–a pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse.
Random House
April 2006
256 pages
ISBN: 0812973755
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Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he’s having a
midlife crisis. He lives a dissolute existence in a tiny
apartment with three (sometimes four) slacker roommates,
holds a mind-numbing job at the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer,
and has a chronic inability to make up his mind. Encouraged
by one of his roommates to try an experimental drug meant to
banish indecision, Dwight jumps at the chance (not without
some vacillation about the hazards of jumping) and swallows
the first fateful pill. And when all at once he is “pfiredâ€
by Pfizer and invited to a rendezvous in exotic Ecuador with
the girl of his long-ago prep-school dreams, he finds
himself on the brink of a new life. The trouble–well, one of
the troubles–is that Dwight can’t decide if the pills are
working. Deep in the jungles of the Amazon, in the foreign
country of a changed outlook, his would-be romantic escape
becomes a hilarious journey into unbidden responsibility and
unwelcome knowledge–and an unexpected raison d’être.
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