Going Away Party: A NovelWinner of Story Line's first Three Oaks Prize in Fiction, supported by Bloomsbury Books of Ashland, Oregon. Selected from more than 600 entrants, "Going Away Party" stood out for its brisk pace, sassy, streetwise patter, and surprising, compassionate conclusion. Twenty-year-old Jess MacGuire, a good Catholic girl, wrestles with her uncertain future while her family is away on vacation. When her mother's ex-lover appears, she invites him to stay...until they're caught red-handed. An edgy, optimistic affirmation of love and family life. Laura Pedersen was chosen as one of Ten Outstanding Young Americans by President Clinton in 1994. The youngest person ever to have a seat on the floor of the American Stock Exchange, she wrote her first book, "Play Money," about that experience, and a second," Street-Smart Career Guide," about entrepeneurship. A former assistant to Joan Rivers, she writes comedy and performs at the Improv and other venues. She has appeared on "Oprah," the "David Letterman Show," and "Good Morning, America," and is a columnist for the "Sunday New York Times," |
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... once a visitor is already standing at the front door . It's such a blatant act of suspicion and always seems so rude when the tables are turned and I'm the illu- mination victim . Nevertheless , I flick the switch in the front hall as I ...
... Once , about seven years ago , when the regular guy - this was before Reed ― slipped a disc thirty minutes before the broadcast , he called and asked me to fill in . So now whenever they're stuck and I'm around , I do the weather . It's ...
... Once the toothpaste is out of the tube , it's hard to get it back in . ” ” " Who's Haldeman ? " I'm thinking that perhaps he's a fancy scien- tist like Madame Curie or Louis Pasteur . " H.R. Haldeman was Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff ...