<DIV>Hurt people hurt people.<BR /><BR /> Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in <I>Bright Lights, Big City</I>. He’s blinded by love. She by ambition. <I>Diary of an Oxygen Thief</I> is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very real account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.</DIV>