Let Nothing You Dismay
โ Scribed by Mark o'Donnell
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Year
- 2011;2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 133 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307801632
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In his brilliant new novel, the first since the widely enjoyed Getting Over Homer , Mark
O'Donnell takes us on a wild and funny tour through the Christmas season's ultimate challenge: the day of too many parties.
It's Christmas Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve in Manhattan--five days from the holiday Ground Zero--but Tad Leary, the most confused man on earth, doesn't know whether to celebrate or go crazy. He's just been fired, he's about to be evicted from his sublet, he's getting nowhere on his overdue folklore thesis, "Social Hierarchies of Imaginary Places," and on top of everything else--or rather underneath everything else--at age thirty-four (older than Christ), he's five-foot-one and still baby-faced, so he's treated like a child wherever he goes. Nonetheless, he's been invited to seven (a magic number one of his rivals is writing a thesis about) different Christmas parties that day, and he decides to explore every one of them for possible work, apartments, love, and...
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