Waubonsee Community College

The silver linings playbook, Matthew Quick

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fiction

The silver linings playbook

812607285

Matthew Quick

During the years he spends in a neural health facility, Pat Peoples formulates a theory about silver linings: he believes his life is a movie produced by God, his mission is to become physically fit and emotionally supportive, and his happy ending will be the return of his estranged wife, Nikki. When Pat goes to live with his parents, everything seems changed: no one will talk to him about Nikki; his old friends are saddled with families; the Philadelphia Eagles keep losing, making his father moody; and his new therapist seems to be recommending adultery as a form of therapy

An infinite amount of days until my inevitable reunion with Nikki -- He does not preach pessimism -- Orange fire enters my skull -- The worst ending imaginable -- Got nothin' but love for ya -- The concrete doughnut -- I fear him more than any other human being -- The dress-up dinner -- If I backslide -- I don't know how this works -- Filled with molten lava -- Failing like Dimmesdale did -- Do you like foreign films? -- I can share raisin bran -- Sing and spell and chant -- The best therapist in the entire world -- Tiffany's head floating over the waves -- A hive full of green bees -- Sister sailor-mouth -- The implied ending -- An acceptable form of coping -- Balanced very carefully, as if the whole thing might topple when the heater vents begin to blow later this fall -- The "Pat" box -- Mom's handwriting emerges -- The Asian invasion -- Weathering the relative squalor -- As if he were Yoda and I were Luke Skywalker training on the Dagobah system -- I will have to require a first-place victory -- My movie's montage -- Like a shadow on me all of the time -- Letter #2 : November 15, 2006 -- Letter #3 : November 18, 2006 -- Letter #4 : November 29, 2006 -- Letter #5 : December 3, 2006 -- Letter #6 : December 13, 2006 -- Letter #7 : December 14, 2006 -- This square in my hand -- Letter #8 : December 24, 2006 -- An episode seems inevitable -- Mad nipper -- How is she? -- I need a huge favor -- Best intentions -- Booyah! -- Break free of a nimbostratus