The Center of Things (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Book

â??A JOLLY READâ??McPheeâ??s characters are wonderfully weird. . . . Romance mingles with mind-swelling musings on superclusters and string theory. . . . The end equation is an elegant inquiry into the randomness of love and the glory of fate.â?â??Entertainment WeeklyAs a reporter for New Yorkâ??s last evening tabloid, Marie Brown writes about the bizarre and the scandalous. But her life is hardly either. Sheâ??s too single, too tall, and too pragmatic for anything other than her routineâ??which consists of going to work and going to the library, where she indulges in her one passion, physics, and in conversations with Marco Trentadue, the strange â??freelance intellectualâ? in blue pajamas. Then the trajectory of her life takes an unexpected turn.Nora Marsâ??glamour girl, star of stage and screenâ??is near death. Marie has worshipped Nora since she was in high school. Naturally she will write Noraâ??s obit. When Marie meets Noraâ??s charismatic third ex-husband for an interview, she struggles between a reporterâ??s integrity and plain old lust. What Marie uncovers is a story of a starlet who took the exigencies of fame into her own handsâ??and the inspiration to do the same with her own love life. Read More