Right Before Your Eyes
A Novel
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Outspoken playwright Liza Weiler left Yale with everything she thought she needed to make her mark on the New York stage. So why, nearly a decade later, is she still waiting for her “real” life to finally begin? But like any great drama, Liza’s life only needs one good twist. And that’s what happens when she turns her ankle on the way out of a downtown nightspot and falls into the arms of a suspiciously gallant Wall Street prince and a practically perfect ER doc. Suddenly Liza not only has a couple of men in her life, but her play has fallen into the hands of a über-hip theater director. Now Liza’s about to discover how much mess she can make of a seemingly good thing…and how terrifying, slightly tragic, and utterly hilarious a little success can be.
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A Yale grad and frustrated playwright, Liza Weiler is a temp with attitude, answering phones for the feisty nuns of a New York convent. She is cautious when she meets Will Atherton, a second-year grad student interested in staging one of her plays. Will soon accepts an offer to be the subject of a reality TV series centering on struggling actors, which will bring her work exposure, but Liza's enthusiasm further fades as she watches Will butcher her work. Just when she thinks things can't get worse, she sprains her ankle, gets fired from the convent, and is invaded by her midwestern family, who settle in for a long Thanksgiving visit. There are several possible Mr. Rights, including an ER doc and a corporate takeover artist who smells "expensive," as Shanman's madcap debut unfolds in a New York rich with bawdy immediacy.
