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Henry Fitzgerald attempts to set the record straight when he receives a letter from a woman he once knew, a letter that misrepresents the events they experienced
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From Publishers Weekly
In Johnson's immensely appealing first novel, boy meets girl in Madison, Wis., in 1972 and the result is a funny, often tender tale of romantic obsession. When Henry Fitzgerald graduates from the University of Wisconsin his life is mapped out: marriage to his girlfriend, an ambitious graduate student; then law school. Instead he falls in love with the pretty but deeply troubled Claire Cohen, and he's in over his head. The chronicle of his romantic ordeal captures the self-absorption of the 22-year-old in love, and so does Johnson's style, with its quirky asides to the reader and frequent (perhaps too frequent) use of parentheses. The characters are classic figures of the post-'60s landscape, from Henry's manic brother, a radical civil liberties lawyer and small-town celebrity, to a reformed sex pervert turned lay preacher who runs a hostel for wayward boys.
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From Library Journal
Lithe, black-haired, perfect-breasted Claire Cohen does not need rescuing. She needs sex, money for an abortion, and someone to carry her record player. But she is perfectly capable of extricating herself from a relationship with archvillain Leonard Gent. "Weird Henry," the narrator, never figures this out. An unexpected note from Claire sets Henry to remembering their brief undergraduate affair in Madison, Wisconsin in the early Seventies. Erudite allusions and a pleasantly literate style cannot save this first novel from a silly plot and tedious characters. Not a necessary purchase.
-Maurice Taylor, Brunswick Cty. Lib., Southport, N.C.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherWashington Square Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0671758853
- ISBN 13 9780671758851
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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