Him Her Him Again The End of Him (Paperback)
Description
Patricia Marx is one of the finest comic writers of her time, as readers of The New Yorker and fans of Saturday Night Live already know. Her fiction debut is an endlessly entertaining comic novel about one woman’s romantic fixation on her first boyfriend.
About the Author
Patricia Marx is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a former writer for Saturday Night Live. She is the author of several books, including the novel Him Her Him Again The End of Him, which was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for Humor. Marx was the first woman elected to the Harvard Lampoon. Starting in the fall of 2011, she will teach screenwriting at Princeton University. She can take a baked potato out of the oven with her bare hand.
Praise for Him Her Him Again The End of Him…
"Laugh-aloud funny, fierce, witty, incisive, well-written, engaging, and intelligent. A wonderful book."
-- Roz Chast, New Yorker cartoonist and author of The Party, After You Left
"As funny as Kingsley Amis and Nora Ephron, yet wholly original, that Patricia Marx is a crackerjack (lady) writer. Way more talented than Gummo!"
-- David Rakoff, author of Don't Get Too Comfortable
"Patricia Marx's dazzling book is painfully hilarious, and at the same time hilariously painful, and, for that matter, flat-out hilarious. Frankly, I've never enjoyed a bad relationship this much."
-- Susan Orlean, author of My Kind of Place
"Patty Marx is a complete original, with a dry, observant wit, a feeling for descriptive detail, and a cool kind of warmth, all entirely her own. Her tale of love sort of found and sort of lost in Cambridge and Manhattan will make any reader laugh hard and think harder."
-- Adam Gopnik, author of Through the Children's Gate and Paris to the Moon
"Patricia Marx is a wonderfully funny writer."
-- Ian Frazier, author of Gone to New York
"If you're like me, you read a blurb and think, Oh, I didn't know they were friends. But I hardly know Patty -- we had dinner once (with other people, and all she had was a Diet Coke). So you can believe me when I say: This may be the funniest book I've ever read. The funniest. Ever. And keep in mind I didn't write this blurb as a favor to Patty. I did it for you. So you'd be able to pick out the funniest book in the store and take it home and laugh your head off."
-- Melissa Bank, author of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
"I laughed at its audacity, and cried that I didn't write it."
-- Steve Martin, author of Shopgirl
