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Soon, you will be skinny again. You will only wear dresses. You will never be afraid of strangers. You will drink men under the table and sleep with college freshmen. They will read to you excitedly from their textbooks, their cheeks still raw from shaving too fast. You will take a woman lover and live in North Africa with a turban wrapped around your head.No doubt Gasco's intention is to catapult us willy-nilly into the character's innermost thoughts; unfortunately, page upon page of this relentless, in-your-face you you you more often than not drives the reader in the opposite direction. (Sleep with college freshmen, you protest. Hell, no!) Applied judiciously, this literary gimmick might have worked; using it in six out of the eight stories, however, is definite overkill. Indeed, the strongest story in the collection, "Mother: Not a True Story," is written in the third person. Here Gasco crafts a deft, darkly humorous portrait of an adoptive mother who creates a fictional birth mother for her dissatisfied teenaged daughter. Perhaps the best way to read Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? is intermittently, so as to enjoy Elyse Gasco's passion and point of view without getting run over by her style. --Alix Wilber
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Book Description Broschur (Paperback) -. - aus der Bibliothek von Hanna Behrend (Wien 1922 - Berlin 2010) mit dementsprechendem Stempel im hinteren Nachsatz, - - internlp081-4676 Englisch - 238 S. 20 x 13 x 2 cm - Oktav 200g. mit deutlichen Gebrauchsspuren - leicht berieben und bestoßen mit kleinen Randläsuren, deutlich nachgedunkelt, Nemenseinkleber, sonst guter Zustand, -. Seller Inventory # 81390