| Let Nothing You Dismay Contributor(s): O'Donnell, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 037570096X ISBN-13: 9780375700965 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1999 Annotation: Tad Leary has problems. Just fired from his job at a Manhattan private school, about to be evicted from his sublet, and stalled on his dissertation ("Social Hierarchies of Imaginary Places"), he wakes up on the Sunday before Christmas to realize he has seven parties to attend. A trooper in jeans and a pressed white shirt, he sets off: for brunch with his eccentric family, an afternoon performance-art piece by a friend sporting little more than a tattoo of a goatee, a dinner party where he runs into an ex-girlfriend, a late-night soiree where he spars with an ex-boyfriend, and more. With a charming combination of wit, wisdom, and just a touch of cosmic panic, Tad charts a survivalist's course through Manhattan's social hierarchies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.18" W x 7.98" (0.51 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - New York - Holiday - Christmas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Uproarious...one of the funniest writers around."--The New Yorker Tad Leary has problems. Just fired from his job at a Manhattan private school, about to be evicted from his sublet, and stalled on his dissertation ("Social Hierarchies of Imaginary Places"), he wakes up on the Sunday before Christmas to realize he has seven parties to attend. A trooper in jeans and a pressed white shirt, he sets off for brunch with his eccentric family, an afternoon performance-art piece by a friend sporting little more than a tattooed goatee, a dinner party where he runs into an ex-girlfriend, a late-night soiree where he spars with an ex-boyfriend, and more. With a charming combination of wit, wisdom--and just a little whimpering--Tad charts a survivalist's course through Manhattan's social hierarchies. "A delight.... By turns zany and meditative, satirical and mellow...a gently bittersweet comedy."--Newsday "A wise, hilarious stocking stuffer."--The Village Voice |