Article: Two Guys from Verona: A Novel of Suburbia.

These days, there's only one way to justify a novel about a pair of straight white men stumbling toward middle age: make it science fiction. Two Guys From Verona compresses American suburban consciousness to a fateful autumn in 1999, then inscribes the standard arc of the masculine psyche in terms of polar opposites and tectonic millennial anxiety.

Joel Gold and Will Weiss, both north of forty, have lived in Verona, New Jersey, forever. Their existences, however, couldn't have veered more dramatically from early indications. Will, the high-school geek, is married with two kids, works for his father's cardboard-box business, lusts after his secretary, fetishizes his ...

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