The Best a Man Can Get - Couverture souple

O'Farrell, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0385600844 ISBN 13 : 9780385600842

Editeur : Doubleday, 2000

Synopsis

Michael Adams writes advertising jingles and has come up with a way of spending less time with his sensible wife and young children: he secretly keeps a Thames-side flat, shared with three layabout bachelors, where he lives a precarious double life in an attempt to escape the strain of parenthood.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Michael Adams shares a flat with three other men in their late twenties. Days are spent lying in bed, playing computer games and occasionally doing a bit of work. And then, when he feels like it, he crosses the river and goes back to his unsuspecting wife and children.

For Michael is living a double life - he escapes from the exhausting misery of babies by telling his wife he has to work through the night or travel up north. And while she is valiantly coping on her own, he is just a few miles away in a secret flat, doing all the things that most men with small children can only dream about. He thinks he can have it all, until is deception is inevitably exposed...

The Best a Man Can Get is written with the hilarious eye for detail that sent John O'Farrell's first book, Things Can Only Get Better, to the top of the bestseller lists. It is a darkly comic confessional that is at once compelling, revealing and very, very funny.

Revue de presse

"Punchline fuelled, relentless humour...I don't think a woman is going to get much closer to the workings of a man's mind than this. Giggling several times a page with plenty of out-loud laughs is guaranteed. Is John O'Farrell funny? Very" (Daily Mirror)

"So funny because it rings true... Packed with painfully well-observed jokes" (The Times)

"A hilarious confessional narrative. This wickedly observed page-turner lets bachelor-nostalgia joyride to its absurd conclusion... Piquant and irreverently sardonic" (Literary Review)

"This is SO good... so insightful about men, women, love and parenthood that you read every page with a wince of recognition. Fab, fab, fab" (India Knight)

"Excellent... Things Can Only Get Better will make you laugh out loud" (Angus Deayton)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0385600844
• ISBN 13: 9780385600842
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible