Tim Tharp

So, my beautiful fat girlfriend, Cassidy, is threatening to kick me to the curb again, my best friend suddenly wants to put the brakes on our lives of fabulous fun, my mom and big sister are plotting a future in which I turn into an atomic vampire, and my dad, well, my dad is a big fat question mark that I''m not sure I want the answer to.Some people would let a senior year like this get them down. Not me. I''m Sutter Keely, master of the party. I''m your man when it comes to cranking the wild times. But don''t mistake a midnight philosopher like me for nothing more than a shallow party boy. Just ask Aimee, the new girl in my life. She saw the depth of the Sutterman from that first moment when she found me passed out on the front lawn. Okay, so she''s a social disaster; but that''s where I come in. Isn''t it my duty to show her a splendiferous time, and then let her go forth and prosper?Yes, life is weird, but I embrace the weird. Let everyone else go marching off into their great shining futures if they want. Me, I''ve always been more than content to tip my whiskey bottle and take a ride straight into the heart of the Spectacular Now.

SUTTER KEELY. HE''S the guy you want at your party. He''ll get everyone dancing. He''ll get everyone in your parents'' pool. Okay, so he''s not exactly a shining academic star. He has no plans for college and will probably end up folding men''s shirts for a living. But there are plenty of ladies in town, and with the help of Dean Martin and Seagram''s V.O., life''s pretty fabuloso, actually. Until the morning he wakes up on a random front lawn, and he meets Aimee. Aimee''s clueless. Aimee is a social disaster. Aimee needs help, and it''s up to the Sutterman to show Aimee a splendiferous time and then let her go forth and prosper. But Aimee''s not like other girls, and before long he''s in way over his head. For the first time in his life, he has the power to make a difference in someone else''s life--or ruin it forever.

Así estamos. Cassidy está a punto de darme la patada, mi mejor amigo se ha rajado y ahora quiere poner freno a nuestras vidas de diversión ilimitada, mi madre y mi hermana conspiran para que me convierta en uno de esos trabajadores zombis, y mi padre, bueno, mi padre es un gran interrogante que no estoy seguro de querer desvelar. Mucha gente se volveria loca con este panorama en su ultimo año de instituto. Pero yo no. Yo soy Sutter Keely, el rey de las fiestas. Y no confundas a este filosofo trasnochado con el tipico fiestero, tio. Pregunta a Aimee, la nueva chica de mi vida. Ella vio la profundidad del Sutterman desde el momento en que me encontro durmiendo la mona en la entrada de su casa. Si, vale, Aimee es un desastre social ¡pero ahi entro yo! Que todo el mundo persiga sus deslumbrantes futuros si quieren. Yo siempre he estado mas que satisfecho viendo como se vacia mi botella de whisky y enfrentandome cara a cara con el corazon mismo de# mi espectacular ahora.