Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York

ISBN: 9781585674718

出版社: Penguin USA

出版年: 20040201

页数: 223

定价: $ 13.95

装帧: Pap

内容简介

Three decades after its original bestselling publication, "Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York" is still completely on target as the most achingly funny book-length suicide note ever written by an agonizingly single 30-year-old trying unsuccessfully to straddle two worlds: the one she's been programmed for from birthamarriage first, life lateraand the illusive swinging singles scene of liberated New York City. Meet Sheila Levine, sheas smart and funny, and her mother tells her sheas beautiful. . . . But her skirtas always a bit wrinkled, sheas trying to lose 15amake that 25apounds, she just turned 30 . . . and sheas still single. She tries to date and mate, she really does, but disappointment turns to desperation, and after a flash of insight, Sheila calmly decides to kill herself. So she starts to get her affairs in order and writes a suicide note to her loving parents to explain it all.