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Empire Falls
Just out of the blue, I was thinking about Richard Russo's Pulitzer Prize winning Empire Falls last night. Specifically, I was thinking about Miles Roby's wife, Janine.
For those of you unfamiliar with the story, Janine left Miles sometime before the book begins. She declared one day that he could never satisfy her sexually, and she goes off to find her sexual peak. She becomes a work out fiend, spending hours upon hours in the gym in order to make herself sexually desirable. She flaunts her new perfect body whenever possible, and she manages to hook up with the older, but not too much older, guy who owns the gym, a man who also seems to be fairly body obsessed. Her entire mind set is focused on two things, her body, and how her body can lead her to good sex. She and her new beau are easily the most irritating characters in the book.
I dont' know why she suddenly came to mind.
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