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My stepfather has this cache of popular fiction from 20-30 years ago, and he keeps sending these books to me. They are gross. Like the kinds of books you want to wear gloves to read. They aren't jumping off the shelf saying "read me, read me."
This book books is really dated. Published in 1973 it starts out like this: "Or look at it this way. Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad."
Stew has named his "Id" Blodgett, and Blodgett has the hots for his mother-in-law who isn't his wife's biological mother, and is only 10 years older than Stew. It's funny. And even dated, it's funny.
Sitting at breakfast one morning they are discussing the potential sexual orientation of one of their friends, the MIL says:
"You mean he could be AM/FM"
"Oh Jesus Mother." In dealing with motherisms especially hard to bear, Dolly drew on one of her mother's own most expressive mannerisms. Shutting her eyes, she put her hand to her face, like a claw, and sat a moment as if rallying her forces for contention with something threatening to shatter her last reserves. They were a theatrical family. "Mother, it's AC-DC. Not AM/FM."
This book reminded me of The Ginger Man, if the Ginger Man was about middle-class, suburbanite, American, WASPs.
A fun read.
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