Adverbs.(Book review)

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*** Adverbs By Daniel Handler Disappointingly Lemony?

Sixteen linked stories, each titled with an adverb, explore love's complicated permutations. "Wrongly" features a graduate student inexplicably drawn to a colleague who's already treated her badly. In "Immediately," a man falls in love with his homophobic cabdriver, and in "Briefly," a teenager's crush on his sister's boyfriend haunts him throughout life. Love occupies the thoughts and actions of the gay and straight, the young and old, the normal and dysfunctional, and even a ghost--and it almost always hurts ...

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