I was confident that our dining-room suite
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He serves as a resource person
would stop interfering with her plans…Bride-to-be Rosie loves her fiance but is having serious second thoughts
a portrait of the insidious violence latent in small-town life and of a frenzien young man lashing out at everyone
My Year of Rest and Relaxation Book Sense Book of the Year Award Nominee (2004) I was confident that ourOur narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best