Beta Male - Softcover

Iain Hollingshead

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715637118 ISBN 13: 9780715637111

Publisher: Duckworth, 2010

Synopsis

Sam Hunt is a confused modern male in his very late twenties. A work-shy, commitment-phobic would-be actor, he is beginning to worry that turning thirty might just be the last straw. Flatmate Alan, the sensible one, has just been proposed to by his girlfriend Jess, with his femme fatale boss looking on with a saucy gleam in her eye. Newly-dumped Ed spends his time tearfully watching 'Sex and the City' in a pile of his ex-girlfriend's pyjamas and plotting his revenge. Meanwhile unemployed doctor Matt embarks on a dubious bet with Sam to see who can be the first to ensnare a rich wife and enjoy a life of leisure... Are your carefree twenties a retreating memory? Are your friends discussing children and fixed-rate mortgages while you clutch your Xbox, sobbing? You're not the only one. 'Beta Male' is a riotously funny and painfully honest chronice about friendship, masculinity, marriage and the beginning of the end of the beginning of adulthood.

About this title

About the Author:

Iain Hollingshead is an author and journalist. His first novel –Twenty Something – was published in May 2006. His second, Beta Male, appeared in April 2010. He has also written three spin-off books for the BBC’s BAFTA-winning spy drama Spooks, and has edited five bestselling collections of unpublished letters to The Daily Telegraph in the Am I alone in thinking...? series. He also co-authored and produced a musical – Blair on Broadway – which ran for three weeks in a pub theatre before transferring to the West End. His journalism has appeared in a wide range of publications, from the Guardian to GQ, Grazia to The Sunday Times.Regular columns have included “Loose Ends”, in the Saturday Guardian, and “Friends”, a pastiche of the coalition government in The Sunday Telegraph.

Review:

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¦Bennett¦s education in the world of global commerce sparkles with humor and sharp observations.¦ --Publishers Weekly

¦It¦s a humorous journey in some ways, and Bennett is a very good and often funny writer. But it also becomes a very interesting a comment on how much the West has come to depend on the EastèEvery aspect of the book is rivetingèFrightening, funny and fiercely interesting.¦ --January Magazine

¦Much more than an intrepid investigator reporting how his underpants found their way to his body, Bennett is a delightful guide on an off-the-beaten-track-tour of the New Chinaè The good time he has on his adventures from one end of China to the other is infectious.¦ --ShelfAwareness

¦If you read only one China book this year, make it Joe Bennett¦s Where Underpants Come From. Bennett does witty travelogue better than Bill Bryson, and dissects what makes countries and their economies tick better than PJ O¦Rourke did in Eat the Rich.¦ Urbanatomy.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Duckworth
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0715637118
• ISBN 13: 9780715637111
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224