Guilty Pleasures

Name: Guilty Pleasures
Brand: My Store
SKU: LSBOKDB020
Price: 10.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Barthelme, Donald

10 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.