Centering on the love life of programmer John Brown, this novel has a structure inspired by the Charles Johnston translation of Eugene Onegin.
Two characters in this work see Rainer Fassbinder's Veronika Voss on a date, but get bored after 10 minutes and have sex instead. This work ends with the protagonist touching a sand dollar that belonged to his dead lover and imagining her saying, "Clear your throat and dry these tears." The protagonist of this work has an existential crisis after a red frisbee almost hits him in the face. Characters in this work include a man who protests Lungless Labs and the drummer for the band Liquid Sheep, a woman who dies in a car crash with the Lamonts. This work's protagonist dates women he meets through (*) newspaper personals, including the lawyer Liz Dorati. In this novel, Janet Hayakawa owns a pet iguana named Arnold Schwarzenegger. Centering on the love life of programmer John Brown, this novel has a structure inspired by the Charles Johnston translation of Eugene Onegin. For 10 points, name this novel in verse, written by Vikram Seth about San Francisco yuppies.
Two characters in this work see Rainer Fassbinder's Veronika Voss on a date, but get bored after 10 minutes and have sex instead.
The  Golden Gate