“People are often afraid of me when I get agitated or angry. Bartholomew has little in common with his pen-pal: “I’m six foot three inches tall with too much hair on my arms and in my ears, but not enough on the top of my head,” he writes. The story of The Good Luck of Right Now unfolds in a series of letters from Bartholomew to his late mother’s favorite movie star, Richard Gere. I have pretended my entire life,” says thirty-nine-year-old Bartholomew Neil, the protagonist of the new novel from Matthew Quick, author of The Silver Linings Playbook, a New York Times bestseller. What if the only thing that made your life bearable was pretending that it was? “Pretending has always been easy for me.
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