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Plot Summary of Emma Who Saved My Life
"Gil moves to New york to realize his dreams of becoming an actor. There he meets Emma, whose enduring friendship sustains him and keeps him afloat as he struggles over many years striving to find the success that will make his life in New York meaningful. "
sayruh, Resident Scholar

"This is a first-person account of life as a starving artist (actor) in New York in the 1970s. "
KentP, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Emma Who Saved My Life
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Plot
Tone of book? - upbeat - depressed
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999 - 1960's-1970's
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Kind of romance: - GENERAL--no other subplots apply
Life of a profession: - actor
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Job/Profession/Status story Yes

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - actor/actress/producer
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique - healthy but a geeky weakling

Main Adversary
Identity: - none - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - artist
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb: Yes
Eccentric: - obsessed - emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a lot
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 1 (None)
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
City? Yes
City: - New York - dirty, grimy (like New York) - dangerous

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - actual description of hetero sex - descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
Unusual Style: - a lot of flashback and forwards - a lot of stream of consciousness - written like a journal/diary/letters
Amount of dialog - significantly more dialog than descript
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