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Wonderfully snarky. It's like Gertrude Stein meets Marilyn Monroe. Wholly unexpected.…more

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Oriana
May 09, 2007 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: read-2010
This afternoon I was getting ready to go to a dinner party up in Riverdale (for non–New Yorkers, that's about as far from Brooklyn as, say, Rhode Island). I was late, as I always am. And as I was about to dash out the door, I had a moment of honest-to-goodness panic when I realized that my purse was so light because it didn't have a book in it. That's right, I finished The Alcoholic this morning, and I had nothing particular picked out to read next, and there I was facing two hour-plus subway ri ...more
Magdelanye
May 16, 2011 marked it as to-read