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by Amanda Brown and Janice Weber
St. Martin’s Press (ISBN: 978-0-312-36673-5)
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The elastic on Wyeth McCoy’s sleep mask snapped just as his nightmare reached a horrific climax. In his dream he had been best man at a squillion dollar wedding. The bride had arrived late, drunk, then had fallen into a pew while barreling up the aisle. Her nosebleed left hideous splotches on a gown previously owned by Elizabeth Taylor; the sight of blood caused the groom to become sick all over his powder blue tuxedo. When the organist wouldn’t stop playing Take Me Out to the Ball Game, people began pelting him with their cell phones until he fled, taking all four harpists with him. The preacher couldn’t remember the names of the couple getting married and neither could Wyeth, a humiliating snafu since he had known the groom since childhood. Nonetheless the ceremony stumbled on until Wyeth, desperately searching for the wedding ring, discovered it dangling from his own pierced earlobe. The mother of the bride began pulling it with all her might, tearing it free just as his sleep mask gave up the ghost.
"From Brown (Elle Woods, 2007) and Weber (Hot Ticket, 2000), an energetic farce skewering the lives of the rich and obnoxious. Great, silly fun, guaranteed to be seen at a beach near you."
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