{"product_id":"vamp-until-ready-paperback","title":"Vamp Until Ready - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Magruder\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I figure that some of you have been in plays, and so know how a closing night feels. With some shows, it's a relief. With others, you're fighting tears. Robin's theory is that it depends on how you feel about the makeshift family you've created for those weeks.\" Says Cary Dunkler, chorus boy turned master baker, who forms part of the network of protagonists in \u003cb\u003eVamp Until Ready\u003c\/b\u003e. Cary, Isa Vass, Kristy Schroyer, Judy Gabelson, and Mark Shinner have lives that are transformed in surprising ways by working on or backstage at the Hangar Theatre, a summer stock outfit in upstate New York in the 1980's. They make--and remake--their families in this closely observed, ultimately comic valentine to the Socialist-leaning hamlet of Ithaca and to the pleasures of putting on a show at warp speed in hot weather.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eVamp Until Ready\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eJ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eames Magruder's\u003c\/b\u003e warm-hearted, hair-raising, and hilarious new novel, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVamp Until Ready\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, is a cross between \u003ci\u003eWinesburg, Ohi\u003c\/i\u003eo and a backstage musical-a panorama of small-town American life over a dozen years, but a dozen particular years, 1980 to 1992, the era of Reagan-Bush, the global AIDS crisis, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. And not just any town: Ithaca, New York, a college town with a hippie hangover and a cast of literally theatrical characters who are always putting on a play. In the novel's ingenious structure, major characters in one chapter appear as minor characters in the next, and vice versa, as if you held up a multi-faceted gem and kept turning it in the light until every surface was illuminated. \u003cb\u003eMagruder's\u003c\/b\u003e gift is to make you feel like you've gotten to be friends with a bunch of charming, fallible, wounded and wounding, passionate and compassionate people who are yearning for-and sometimes avoiding-connection. Like us.\"\u003cbr\u003e-John Weir, author of \u003ci\u003eYour Nostalgia is Killing Me \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This novel is a triumphant romp. We're privileged with intimate portraits of a group of friends as they roam from Ithaca to Uganda, from love to grief, from ambition o reconciliation, James Magruder's \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVamp Until Ready\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a pure pleasure.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Don Lee, author of \u003ci\u003eLonesome Lies Before U\u003c\/i\u003es \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A hilarious, moving novel inhabited by characters who are both outrageous and utterly human, linked not only by a theater in Ithaca but by their desire to be loved. With its seductive, Russian doll structure and gorgeous prose, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVamp Until Ready\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e captivates and delights.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Jane Delury, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Balcony\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 218\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 28, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42744387207231,"sku":"9781955826006","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/83c57d43d479fd5749e8b63eae57a02f.webp?v=1765168031","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/vamp-until-ready-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}