Everything is just a little more difficult for poor thirty-something Margaret Rudge. Adjusting to single life after her no-good husband Tommy leaves her for a shrink, Margaret manages to snag a job slinging coffee on the street. Everyone hooks up waiting for their latte, her sometimes-fabulous friend Cindy advises. And maybe it's good advice because it's while working at Frank's coffee cart that she meets a handsome young dancer and is drawn into the exhilarating and slightly unhinged world of a NYC modern dance company. Margaret is stuck in a jack-in-the-box, and author Mark Wagstaff expertly mans the crank, turning the lever over and over, letting eerie circus music slowly fill your head. Will she find what she's looking for? Is it hiding in the strangely lit aisles of her downstairs grocery store? Maybe it's avoiding her calls, holed up with a new girlfriend, the cognitive psychology graduate, in a condo in Phoenix. Or maybe, just maybe, it's coffee-stained and unexpectedly expected. In Attack of the Lonely Hearts, each character is broken in their own forlorn way. A master of the dark and witty one-liner, Wagstaff manages to spin a hilarious and off-kilter story about what can happen when lonely hearts discover they're attached to even lonelier bodies.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2017.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 823.92
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781772141375 9781772141030
- LCCN
- PR6123.A342
- LCCN Item number
- A88 2017eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (109 numbered pages, 1 unnumbered page)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00978784 (OCoLC)1061289713 (CaOOCEL)479740
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- 39th annual 3-Day novel writing contest 1
- Winner of the 39th Annual 3-Day Novel Writing Contest 3
- For the dreamers and the dancers. 5
- Times Focused on Singles Sock Delivers an Upset. 7
- Times 10
- Planes Trains and Automobiles 23
- Times 35
- Times pas de chat 38
- Times 39
- Armed and Dangerous Delirious Planes Trains and Automobiles Uncle Buck 40
- Masters of Menace 42
- New York Times 43
- Flintstones 45
- Star Trek 47
- Planes Trains and Automobiles 48
- MASH Dober- man Angels with Filthy Souls 54
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit Who Framed Roger Rabbit 55
- Frozen 68
- Wizard of Oz 69
- Armed and Dan- gerous 71
- Career Opportunities 73
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch 87
- Scooby Doo 102
- Pet Sematary 103
