Guilty Pleasures
Barthelme, Donald10 USD
Date
Unknown
Category
Fiction
Description
Every four seconds, a romance novel published by Harlequin or its British counterpart, Mills & Boon, is sold somewhere.. GUILTY PLEASURES takes an amusing and touching look at this global phenomenon. Ironies abound in the contrasts between the everyday lives of the books' readers and the fantasy worlds that offer them escape. GUILTY PLEASURES portrays five romance devotees who must, ultimately, find their dreams in the real world.
Excerpt
“Are you a Bunny?”
“No,” she said. “I am not a Bunny.”
“If you are not a Bunny then why are you a member of
the class of persons that I am not allowed to touch?”
There was no response from the patient.
“Were you ever a Bunny?”
“Yesterday.”
“You were a Bunny Yesterday?”
“Yesterday I was a Bunny and today I am not a Bunny.
I was terminated. For loss of bunny image.”
“What is ‘bunny image’?”
“The attractive, fresh, youthful look I had when I started.
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