![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Another finds a Halloween mask of serial killer Ted Bundy bobbling life like on a stick in the backseat of her car. One receives a venomous (and quite brilliant) parody of the suicide-note-cum-poem she'd read in class. Plus, she has a real knack for running a classroom-until a prankster she dubs the Sniper starts stalking her students. She's a case study in dysfunction, but she's a lot of fun to be around. ![]() A loner who hates to be alone, Amy has been widowed and then divorced her closest friend is Alphonse, a phlegmatic basset hound who responds to one command only: "Doughnut!" He has the misanthropic appeal of E.B. Cursed with meteoric success as a young writer, she hasn't written a word in twenty years, so to pay the bills she teaches wannabe novelists and recent divorcés at a second-rate college's night school.Īt least it gets her out of the house. Overweight and clinically depressed, Amy guzzles red wine, wolfs down Heath bars, and reads like an addict to stave off her fears. Sometimes, late at night, in the dark, she laughs inappropriately." Fans of her early cult favorite, Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories and her 2004 parody, Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather, will enjoy heroine Amy Gallup, who maintains a website called "Go Away." On it she describes herself as "an aging, bitter, unpleasant woman‚ who spends her days editing unreadable text and her nights teaching and not writing. But she also brings to the genre a biting sense of humor, a quick wit, and even a dose of empathy. ![]()
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