The Anxiety of Everyday Objects
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0142003700 / Publisher: Penguin Books, February 2004
Winona Bartlett struggles to juggle her safe job as a secretary at a New York City law firm with her aspirations of becoming a filmmaker and her disastrous love life, a situation that is complicated by the arrival of a new woman lawyer who challenges herto trust her own creative ideas.
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Winona Bartlett, secretary at a New York City law firm, has secret dreams of a more creative career - to be more than a "non-filmmaking filmmaker." Nevertheless, she admits to finding a sense of security - even delight - from the basic rules and rituals of white-collar servitude. Then one day, into her coffee-making, dictation-taking world walks Sandy Spires, a beautiful, commanding - and blind - lawyer who joins the firm and inspires Winona to renew work on her long-languishing film. Meanwhile, Winona's love life is a mess. Her relationship with Jeremy the Sincere is doomed, her other dates are always disasters, and she stubbornly ignores the attentions of her engaging colleague, Rex. Just as Winona hits bottom romantically and also realizes Sandy is not who she's pretending to be, she comes to understand that she might need to take a more honest look at herself.
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