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008 980302s1998 nyu 000 1 eng
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020 $a0375401032 (hc. : alk. paper)
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100 1 $aO'Donnell, Mark.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80058528
245 10 $aLet nothing you dismay /$cby Mark O'Donnell.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c1998.
263 $a9811
300 $a193 pages ;$c23 cm
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520 $aIt'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.
520 8 $aHe'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.
520 8 $aNonetheless, 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 just plain distraction.
520 8 $aTad's a walking punch bowl of joy and fear, goodwill and alienation, running a constant mental argument with himself throughout his long marathon.
520 8 $aBy midnight, he will have visited all parts of his past - from brunch with his rumpled Boston Irish parents and arguably more successful brothers, to dinner with his beautiful Swedish ex-girlfriend, to a fancy, colossal uptown bash where, by now dangerously looped, he bumps into an ex-boyfriend (more confusion!) looking as "glorious and golden as a roast turkey."
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3565.D594$iL48 1998