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Vintage
May 2000
On Sale: May 9, 2000
224 pages
ISBN: 0375706429
EAN: 9780375706424
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Otherwise Engaged is Suzanne Finnamore's wickedly funny
account of an intelligent, rational woman's transformation
into the harpy of anxieties that is the bride-to-be. When Michael pops the question, Eve is deliriously happy.
She tells grocery clerks. She subscribes to bridal
magazines. She delights in the rainbows that shower from
the one-carat (okay, .81-carat) ring on her hand. For two
days. As the cumulative stresses of ordering invitations,
finding a dress, and organizing the Perfect Honeymoon fry
Eve's nerves, the very real prospect of being with one man
for the rest of her days reverberates through her
consciousness like a Chinese gong. Suddenly the sight of
Michael's discarded socks on the floor and his passing
mentions of his former live-in French girlfriend incite
doubt, argument, and public fainting. Uproarious, insightful, tender, Otherwise Engaged dashes
our soap-bubble fantasies in favor of a hilariously
realistic walk to the alter.
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