Friday, June 27, 2008

Attack of the Theater People by Marc Acito


I’ll admit that this adult novel isn’t for everyone, and probably not too many of my high school readers would enjoy it. But I giggled my way through the crude humor and gay drama escapades. Edward Zanni is expelled from Julliard because he’s “too jazz hands” and he has to make survive New York City on a series of small jobs that get better and better. He’s hired as a substitute theater usher (because he’s gay) and he works as a party motivator. He gets kids to boogie at their bar mitzvahs and keeps middle-aged women comfortable on the dance floor during corporate shindigs. He even is asked to schmooze and give info to the handsome Chad. But then Edward is served a subpoena from the Security Exchange Commission. And he is evicted. And his father marries his domestic because she’s pregnant with twins. And his mom changes her name to Joy Drinkwater and follows a mystic who travels in a wheelbarrow. And Edward falls in love with a confused straight man. And, wow, it just keeps coming.

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