Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and
a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard,
write hard and try to screw every woman you meet. He's writing film
scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way through
Californian society, but also suffering from writers block and
unpaid taxes. Then a solution presents itself - Marr is to be the
unlikely recipient of the W. F. Bingham Prize for Outstanding
Contribution to Modern Literature, an award worth half a million
pounds. But it does not come without a price: he must spend a year
teaching at the English university where his ex-wife and estranged
daughter now reside. As Kennedy acclimatises to the sleepy campus,
inspiring revulsion and worship in equal measure, he's forced to
reconsider his precarious lifestyle. Incredible as it may seem,
there might actually be a father and a teacher lurking inside this
'preening, narcissistic, priapic, sociopath'. Or is there...
Straight White Male is a no-holds-barred look into the mid-life
crisis and the contemporary male sexual psyche. It is a brilliant
new satire from one of Britain's sharpest writers.
General
Imprint: |
Windmill Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
July 2014 |
Authors: |
John Niven
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
Pages: |
374 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-09-959215-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-09-959215-0 |
Barcode: |
9780099592150 |
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