SUMMER DEPARTURES (THE VITALITY OF SEEING LIFE, #2)

At the end of a post-grad week in a Newport Beach cottage, David's college friends are leaving for professional careers, as is his girlfriend who surprises with a gleefully delivered humiliating goodbye. Not so David, who's dozen applications for an editing or writing job have yet to produce interviews.

Strong-willed women abound with comedic overtones as an impromptu backyard tryst is interrupted by a vacuum cleaner salesman, a going-away party for a former girlfriend where he is the only ...