Actress in the House
by Joseph McElroy
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In a darkened theater in New York City, a lawyer named Daley watches with the audience as a young actress, Becca Lang, is struck in the face by her costar. Daley, compelled to meet the actress and to understand what happened onstage, speaks to and forms a relationships with Becca.Tags
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I admit to giving up on this one after 50 pages without the remotest semblance of narrative momentum. Devote a whole book to a moment, fine with me. I certainly am interested in McElroy's works and was intrigued by the premise of this. But bring me somewhere with you. Hold my interest, dammit! I thoroughly enjoyed A Smuggler's Bible and will someday come back to Actress in the House, possibly when in a less foul mood, one more amenable to the density of McElroy's descriptors.
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Joseph McElroy is the author of eight novels, including A Smuggler's Bible and Lookout Cartridge. He is the recipient of the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Ingram Merrill Foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in New York City
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