A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking.
In her early thirties, divorced from her husband, dislocated from friends, anesthetized to pain and please, Wheth is a woman who has run out of both desires and motives - the epitome of a generation made ill by too much freedom..
Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, hollowed-out actress Maria Wyeth's life pLays out in a numbing routine of perpetual freeway driving.
Benny called for a round of Cuba Libres and I gave him some chips to Play for me and went to the ladies' room and never came back.
A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking
