The Wishbones
by:
Tom Perrotta (author)
Everything was going pretty well for Dave Raymond, a thirty-one-year-old wedding musician. He still lived with his parents (but came and went as he pleased)--and though his job wasn't exactly the big time, it paid okay and gave him plenty of free time to hang out with the other Wishbones, downing...
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Everything was going pretty well for Dave Raymond, a thirty-one-year-old wedding musician. He still lived with his parents (but came and went as he pleased)--and though his job wasn't exactly the big time, it paid okay and gave him plenty of free time to hang out with the other Wishbones, downing beers and quizzing each other on rock and roll trivia. Yeah, life wasn't perfect, but it wasn't bad at all. Then he had to blow it all by proposing to his girlfriend...* A New York Times Notable Book of the Year * Terrific reviews from Mademoiselle, Time Out New York, Robert Olen Butler, Publishers Weekly, and others"Readers will [be] hooting for an encore."--New York Times Book Review
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780425169711 (0425169715)
Publish date: July 1st 1999
Publisher: Berkley
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Well this was a total disappointment. Tom Perotta is an author that I have heard good things about, but this was really disappointing. First off the main character, Dave is a total bore. He should have been a minor character and Buzzy should have been the focus. Buzzy was one of two characters w...