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Rent A Slipping-Down Life
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Apr 2004
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $6.99
Pages: 186
Synopsis
Evie's random act of carving the name of a local rock musician into her forehead with fingernail scissors results in inevitable changes in her life, including an engagement to the very same rock musician. She proceeds with a certain indifference, seeming to believe that some kind of change is better than no change at all, until her detachment leads to disappointment and tragedy.
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