- Taschenbuch: 180 Seiten
- Verlag: City Lights (September 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0872863395
- ISBN-13: 978-0872863392
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,3 x 14 x 1,4 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (2 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.376.547 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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We remember Eidus as the author of the striking short story collection Vito Loves Geraldine (1990); now we'll know her as a witty and satirical novelist. Her heroine's unsubtle name is Babette Bliss, but it gets worse: her sister's name is Maya, and her cute husband is named George Harrison. Yes, like the Beatle, and, yes, George was little Babette's favorite Beatle, a definitive factor in her falling in love, even though this George Harrison is an Iowa-raised corporate lawyer. An unabashedly libidinous Jewess from the Bronx, Babette works for a tiny avant-garde theater that is about to lose its precious, if shabby, Manhattan digs. Serious as this problem is, it pales in comparison to her own personal crisis: her husband's affair with a svelte colleague. Hurt and bitter about all the handsome actors she'd dutifully turned down, and steeped in the tepid waters of an all-encompassing state of ambivalence toward marriage, parenthood, and work, Babette moves out. Eidus has fashioned an amusingly jittery, arty, and madcap social scene, but behind this slick facade, she is actually examining the compromises intrinsic to marriage and exposing the turmoil generated by the confusion of fantasy with reality. Donna Seaman
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From Kirkus Reviews
The author of Vito Loves Geraldine (1990) serves up her trademark: frothy fiction that plays off of up-to-the-minute cultural phenomena and the weird normalcy of New York City. Babette Bliss has taken the summer off from her job as associate director of an avant-garde theater. Her boss, Jay (the only other staff member), who is dating her sister Maya (a decorator specializing in pink interiors), wants Babette to come back and help him fight a construction company that wants to tear down the theater to build condominiums. Babette has other things on her mind, however--mainly her suspicion that husband George Harrison (who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Beatle of the same name) is sleeping with a lawyer at his firm. Babette's therapist, Shara-Rose--who moonlights as the singer in a rock band called Mild Neurosis--is trying to help her through all of this. The jokes here are generally funny, although occasionally Eidus drives them home a little too hard, as though she's afraid the reader won't get them without help. Plot points, on the other hand, are rarely carried through completely, nor does Babette ever go all the way in any sense. She moves out on George, stays in the apartment of a performance artist friend who is on tour, and toys with the idea of having an affair with a playwright who is also living there--and happens to have just broken up with Jay's ex- wife. (All is incestuous in this novel.) She considers leaving her job at the theater but feels threatened when a summer intern is hired. There is a resolution of sorts, but one that leaves most of Babette's decisions still up in the air. Very light entertainment, but likely to amuse the class it portrays. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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In this comic, ironic tale, Babette Bliss guides us on a totally enjoyable journey through the domestic and artistic pathways of Manhattan, circa 1993. Check out the noise band called Mild Neurosis, and other maddeningly familiar urban icons. --Thaddeus Rutkowski, author of Roughhouse
Format:Taschenbuch
Clever, funny, and well written. Like her short stories, and maybe even better.
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A delightful diversion
24. August 2004
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Into this slice of New York City life in the '90s comes a heroine on the verge of crisis.
Narrator Babette Bliss, 35, frets about her biological clock, her unsatisfying job at an avant-garde theater and her husband's possible infidelity. She has taken the summer off from work to think through her problems, but the theater is threatened by a group of developers and its director is frantic for her to come back and organize some resisitance.
Babette, however, planning a confrontation with her husband, is deaf to the director's pleas. And once her suspicions are confirmed she's too distraught to spare a thought for a doomed theater.
She decamps to an absent friend's apartment and seesaws between righteous fury and tears, forgiveness and revenge (in kind). In lucid moments she worries about the horrors of apartment hunting, and surviving without her husband's generous income.
Into her life comes a roomate, another beneficiary of the apartment owner's largesse. Babette has always considered Carlos Carlos a cad and a phony - for stealing her friend's wife and for changing his whitebread name. But with greater knowledge comes wider understanding - Carlos is not only worthy of sympathy, he's handsome too. And he sees a spark of creativity in Babette that she has long resisted.
Meanwhile, her rock singer/shrink has decided to give up therapy and devote herself to music, her husband is leaving plaintive messages on the answering machine in the words of the Beatle he resembles and Babette returns to her theater despite her sense of futility.
Should she return to her husband? Have an affair with Carlos? Overcome her writing phobia and become a playwrite?
Babette's dilemma's are not earthshaking, nor will her decisions set her life on an irreversible course but Eidus' playful, wisecracking and vulnerable style sweeps the reader into her world.
Narrator Babette Bliss, 35, frets about her biological clock, her unsatisfying job at an avant-garde theater and her husband's possible infidelity. She has taken the summer off from work to think through her problems, but the theater is threatened by a group of developers and its director is frantic for her to come back and organize some resisitance.
Babette, however, planning a confrontation with her husband, is deaf to the director's pleas. And once her suspicions are confirmed she's too distraught to spare a thought for a doomed theater.
She decamps to an absent friend's apartment and seesaws between righteous fury and tears, forgiveness and revenge (in kind). In lucid moments she worries about the horrors of apartment hunting, and surviving without her husband's generous income.
Into her life comes a roomate, another beneficiary of the apartment owner's largesse. Babette has always considered Carlos Carlos a cad and a phony - for stealing her friend's wife and for changing his whitebread name. But with greater knowledge comes wider understanding - Carlos is not only worthy of sympathy, he's handsome too. And he sees a spark of creativity in Babette that she has long resisted.
Meanwhile, her rock singer/shrink has decided to give up therapy and devote herself to music, her husband is leaving plaintive messages on the answering machine in the words of the Beatle he resembles and Babette returns to her theater despite her sense of futility.
Should she return to her husband? Have an affair with Carlos? Overcome her writing phobia and become a playwrite?
Babette's dilemma's are not earthshaking, nor will her decisions set her life on an irreversible course but Eidus' playful, wisecracking and vulnerable style sweeps the reader into her world.
Blissful
13. Juni 2000
Format:Taschenbuch
In this comic, ironic tale, Babette Bliss guides us on a totally enjoyable journey through the domestic and artistic pathways of Manhattan, circa 1993. Check out the noise band called Mild Neurosis, and other maddeningly familiar urban icons. --Thaddeus Rutkowski, author of Roughhouse
Very enjoyable
6. Juli 1999
Format:Taschenbuch
Clever, funny, and well written. Like her short stories, and maybe even better.
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