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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  This title in other editionsThe Time of My Life: Writers on the Heartbreak, Hormones, and Debauchery of the Promby Rob Spillman
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Remember the ill-fitting tuxes, regrettable dresses, wilting corsages, cheap beer, and rented limos that marked the biggest, most-anticipated celebration of the school year? Remember when the whole world hung in the balance of just one night? Well, lots of your favorite writers do too, and they share the good, the bad, and the embarrassingly ugly in this wonderful compendium of personal reminiscences about prom night. Rob Spillman has collected the prom memories of Cintra Wilson, Walter Kirn, Steve Almond, Samantha Dunn, Susie Bright, Mike Albo, and many others, capturing the magic, the misery, and the atrocious attire in a hilarious look at the simultaneously sublime and ridiculous event that has become the American right of passage. Whether prom night is something you fondly remember or long to forget, The Time of My Life will bring it all back, capturing with wit and poignancy precisely what it was like to be young, hormonal, and dressed like a butler or bridesmaid. Synopsis:A collection of essays, reminiscences, and reflections by such Synopsis:Providing a a whimsical and insightful study of an important rite of passage, a collection of essays, reminiscences, and reflections by such notable authors as Sam Lipsyte, Cintra Wilson, Walter Kirn, Steve Almond, and others captures a full range of experiences surrounding prom night. Original. 40,000 first printing. About the AuthorROB SPILLMAN is editor of the literary magazine Tin House, executive editor of Tin House Books, and the founder of Tin House Literary Festival, now in its fifth year. His writing has appeared in Bookforum, the Boston Review, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications, and he also writes a literary blog for the Huffington Post. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Table of ContentsHands across the sea / Walter Kirn — All the wrong proms / Cintra Wilson — Poor me / Victor LaValle — Culture crash: notes on a Tokyo prom / Jenny Douglas — Suburban vanilla lack (1986) / Mike Albo — Freedom high / Pam Houston --The near-prom experience / Steve Almond — An evening in Paris / Samantha Dunn — In hell from sex / Rachel Resnick — The bunny trip / Susie Bright — After Woodstock / Ann Hood — Hunger / Danielle Trussoni — Feast of the epiphany / Gary Dauphin — DIY prom / Anne Elizabeth Moore — The third-person remove / Kevin Moffett — Myopia / Marian Fontana — The last time I had Zinfandel / Oliver Jones. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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