Top Ten Books of 2009 #4
Outtakes From A Marriage by Ann Leary – Ann Leary might know a thing or two about being a celebrity wife…after all, she’s married to Denis Leary. Outtakes seems cliche, but is actually wonderfully framed. Joe is a successful actor. He and his wife Julia live in New York with their two kids and just ride the wave of Joe’s famousness. Two weeks before the Golden Globes – Joe’s been nominated - Julia accidentally listens to her husband’s voice messages. There is a message from another woman. It’s explicit and raunchy. So from that moment when she hangs up the phone until they get out of the limo at the Golden Globes; Ms. Leary gives us such a perfect snapshot of the celebrity wife that I began to wonder how much was real and how much was fiction.
