false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172259815m/155176.jpg 155176 2 After 18 months of dating, hemming, hawing, begging, badgering, and threatening--as well as performing "really sincere fellatio"--the heroine of <I>Otherwise Engaged</I> has finally finagled an engagement ring. Eve seems confident that Michael, "the epitome of a Nice Jewish Man," is the person she wants to spend her life with. Yet she nearly kills herself soon after the celebratory dinner, staring at her newly acquired rock while speeding along a San Francisco freeway. And she may kill Michael, too, but not accidentally: "Michael leaves his socks on the floor when he takes off his shoes after work. This used to be fine. But now a sock on the floor isn't just a sock on the floor. It's a sock on the floor for the rest of my life."<p> Suzanne Finnamore's comic novel chronicles the happy couple's year-long engagement--which, to judge from Eve's Valium intake, is about 11 months too long. Eve and Michael bicker over every last detail: whether to hire a professional photographer or one of Michael's advertising-director buddies; which one of them wastes more money; who used up the last can of chicken stock and didn't add it to the shopping list. At 36, Eve throws more tantrums than the average toddler, and Michael's moodiness and problems with his ex-wife certainly don't help. The result is one drama-queen dilemma after another, none of them much ameliorated by Eve's slapstick sessions with "a seventy-year-old Marin County prominent Jungian." <p> Eve's troubles are primarily self-induced, of course, and the lush life she leads as a lavishly compensated advertising copywriter makes it hard to regard her as a tragic figure. Still, <I>Otherwise Engaged</I> is worth a quick read by any anxious bride-to-be who's delaying that inevitable appointment with Martha Stewart's premarital to-do checklist. <I>--Erica Jorgensen</I> 1395821 1999 Otherwise Engaged: A Novel total:365|5:30|4:75|3:145|2:89|1:26| 365 1089 530 64 155176 0375706429 9780375706424 356 63 2.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172259815m/155176.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155176.Otherwise_Engaged_A_Novel 1 2 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 06:59:59 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 07:02:49 -0700 2007
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