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Villard
July 2006
On Sale: July 11, 2006
304 pages
ISBN: 081297283X
EAN: 9780812972832
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Humor
Shulman, a chubby, middle-aged stationery-store owner from
New Jersey, has always claimed that he’s been gaining and
losing the same thirty-five pounds since junior high–and
that if you added all of that discarded weight together, he
had lost an entire person. Another Shulman. A Shulman he
never really cared for. A Shulman he’d always tried to lose
by dieting and exercising. A Shulman he’d cover by wearing
extra-large shirts in an attempt to hide his
existence.
This has been just a joke until, at a
crossroads marked by overwhelming marital and business
stress, he actually encounters this Other Shulman–an
incredibly successful man who’s made life and career choices
that Shulman has spurned.
At first, the Other Shulman
is but a mere nuisance, a source of frustration brought
about by mistaken identity. But as time goes by, his actions
become increasingly destructive and threaten to sabotage all
aspects of Shulman’s existence.
The struggle between
the two Shulmans comes to a head while Shulman is running in
the New York City Marathon. And it is during the course of
this race, as he runs through the old neighborhoods where
his life took shape, that this ordinarily passive family man
examines all the choices he’s made and realizes that in
order for him to get his life back on track he must confront
and overcome his haunting demons as presented in the form of
this angry doppelgänger, this Other Shulman.
In 26.2
chapters, one for each mile of the marathon, The Other
Shulman is a hilarious and affecting tale of identity
and aspiration from one of America’s best-known comic
writers.
From the Hardcover edition.
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