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Turning thirty was never supposed to be like this
St. Martin's Press
May 2010
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Featuring: Ben; Jack
369 pages
ISBN: 0312645074
EAN: 9780312645076
Paperback (reprint)
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Ten years ago, Ben, Lindsey, Chuck, Alison and Jack graduated from NYU and went out into the world, fresh-faced and full of dreams for the future. But now Ben's getting a divorce, Lindsey's unemployed, Alison and Chuck are stuck in ruts of their own making, and Jack is getting more publicity for his cocaine addiction than his multimillion-dollar Hollywood successes. It seems like the one thing they've learned since graduation is that nothing turned out the way they'd planned it. Suddenly turning thirty- past the age their parents were when they were born, older than every current star athlete or pop music sensation- seems to be both more meaningful and less than they'd imagined ten years ago. There's no time to contemplate this milestone, however; life is intervening, especially for Jack. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and though the bold plan the friends devise to save Jack from himself may not be the best way, once again going with Plan B seems to be the only choice they have. Jonathan Tropper's wonderful debut novel is about more than friendship, love, celebrity, addiction, kidnapping, or even turning thirty- it's a heartfelt, sharply written, comic riff on what it means to be an adult against your will, to be single when you thought you'd have a family, to realize nothing in life happens like you planned it, to discover you are not, in fact, immortal, and to learn that Star Wars is as good a life lesson today as it was when you were six years old.
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