Spin Cycle
A Novel
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- 49,00 kr
Publisher Description
Her husband left her for another man.
Her boyfriend may be cheating.
Her mother’s got a secret.
Is everyone having great sex but Rachel?
Lately, stand-up comic Rachel Katz’s life has begun to resemble a not-so-funny comedy routine — the kind where nobody laughs and everybody inches toward the door.
It began when her husband cheated ... with another man. Now she’s raising a ten-year-old son who’s fixated on Barbra Streisand and wondering if her dentist boyfriend — who won’t stop flossing long enough to make love to her — is having an affair.
Enter Matt Clapton, a wickedly sexy washing machine repairman who likes Rachel’s jokes and makes her feel like a woman for the first time in ages — maybe in her entire life.
With her mother busy planning a wedding Rachel isn’t sure she wants, her son dead set on inviting Barbra to the reception, and the groom-to-be in South Africa, working on someone else’s oral hygiene, the question is: What’s she going to do about it? Especially when fame and fortune beckon in a comedy contest that could put her on the map ... and change her life forever.
Spin Cycle tells a wickedly funny, shamelessly erotic story of lovers and liars, exes and children, parents and other strangers. This hip and hilarious new novel by the acclaimed author of Neurotica introduces a heroine who never loses her sense of humor and who discovers, somewhere between the rinse and spin cycles, that love — and laughter — can truly conquer all.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rachel Katz would rather make people laugh than tell them unpleasant truths, so she has given up a promising career as a journalist in favor of the dicey life of a stand-up comic at the start of this warmhearted relationship farce from the author of Neurotica. Genuinely hip and decent to the bone, Jewish British single mum Rachel is an adorable heroine. From the opening scene with her hygiene-obsessed dentist fianc , Adam, readers will be rooting for her to lose her dreary beau; prove herself to her suffocatingly anxious mother, Faye; gratify the adoring loyalty of her 10-year-old son, Sam; and win fame and fortune with her stage act. Though Rachel convinces as a stand-up talent, the jokes don't carry the tale. Little light is shed here on the anatomy of a joke, but the opposite is true of human anatomy. From Rachel's father's constipation and neighbor Shelley's labor pains to Rachel's sexual doings with delicious Matt (the visionary washing-machine repairman who provides the novel's neat title and romantic tension), every orifice has its moment in the spotlight. And if the novel is less funny and more ribald than it needs to be, never mind: there's a matey goodness here, an affection for all things human, that makes it a nourishing delight.
