Catalyst: (I wanted to call this The Arachadonic Cascade, but my editor said that would scare people)Jennifer Ball, 1997 - 267 Seiten Shelby, a born rebel with a talent for entertaining others, is a deliverer of singing telegrams - the only practical job her theater major prepared her for. But beneath the glamour of playing Wonder Woman and the Indignity of wearing an inflatable banana, Shelby fears that despite her eccentric attempts to rejuvenate it, her life has become a series of ten-minute spots of entertainment for people who don't appreciate her. Her marriage to her chemist husband Max has lost its spark, and her home life sometimes seems to be as much an act as her telegram deliveries. Her bathroom falling into the basement, drunk men hitting on her, and her husband's preoccupation with a possible scandal at the chemistry lab only reinforce her feeling that she's spinning out of control. To complicate matters even more, Shelby realizes that the only thrill in her days is her growing attraction to Hadley, her husband's best friend and colleague. |
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Al Goldstein Arachidonic Acid band bass drum bathroom bedroom beer Bineet bottle breath Cap'n Crunch catalyst chemist chemistry crazy Dermot drum Eberhard Estrid Ethan eyes face feel finger floor fucking glass going Hadley asked Hadley looked Hadley's hand happy joke key chain kind kitchen knew leaned lips living room loudly mannitol Max asked Max looked Max's mind molecules monkey moved never NMR tubes nodded notebook Okay oleic acid opened orange Paige paused Piltdown played pulled quickly Rahda reaction realized remembered Scotia seemed she'd Shelby asked Shelby felt Shelby looked Shelby started Shelby's shook his head sighed singing telegrams sitting slowly smiled sofa someone sound stopped suddenly talking telegram tell thing thought told took Trantin tried trying turned voice waiting walked wanted watched window Wonder Woman Yeah yelled York