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Title: Life and Love and the Harrowing Pursuit of Happiness.
Review: I went to see Ethan do a reading of this book in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, and was suprised to find him engaging and thoughtful and funny... I had gone with the expectation of seeing a typical evasive "poser" Hollywood publicity appearance, but he was great! Oh, and he wore WHITE socks with dark shoes and green pants. Such nerve.As a writer, I was encouraged when he said that this novel took five years to complete (good things take time, even when you have fabulous connections and a gorgeous wife! Imagine!). Even more heartening, this is a enormous leap forward from his first novel, which was stilted and difficult to finish.Ethan, you pressed on and created a second book that is *well* worth reading. I'm 29, so maybe it spoke perfectly to the angst about relationships and love that people my age have, but I've actually gone back and searched for certain thoughts since I finished the book a week ago... I don't usually do that.Bravo.
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