My Year of Rest and Relaxation Stephen P. Robbins a painstaking dissection of middle-class

a painstaking dissection of middle-class mores

we find that it’s a god’s life at the Sunnyvoyde Residential Home for Retired Deities

and their meaning deteriorates as the collegiate year runs its course

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation Stephen P. Robbins a painstaking dissection of middle-classOur narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best