<div>From the author of the wildly controversial books <I>Liar</I> and <I>Paul's Case</I> comes one of the most anticipated ? and perhaps, in some quarters, feared ? books of the year. This is author Lynn Crosbie at her most honest, most cutting, most hilarious, and most heartbreaking. The stories told here are a repository of a seven-year period in the author's life; they are also a gymnasium where she can flex her prodigious wit and her dazzling stash of literary tricks. Deft with matters both low- and highbrow (here are stories about '80s big-hair bands and the lasting, theological value of the <I>Rocky</I> series; here, too are stories contemplating critical theory and fine art), <I>Life Is About Losing Everything</I> speaks with manic yet grave authority about risking and losing everything, and then sorting through the remains to discover what is beautiful, what is trash, and what, ultimately, belongs.</DIV>