The Best a Man Can Get

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Family Life, Humorous
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Author: John O'Farrell ISBN: 9780802197887
Publisher: Grove Atlantic Publication: March 15, 2010
Imprint: Grove Press Language: English
Author: John O'Farrell
ISBN: 9780802197887
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Publication: March 15, 2010
Imprint: Grove Press
Language: English

A hilarious and touching debut novel in the seriocomic Nick Hornby tradition.
 
Michael Adams is a composer of advertising jingles who shares a bachelor pad with three other guys. He spends his days lying in bed (a minifridge positioned perfectly within reach) and playing trivia games with his underachieving roommates. And when he feels like it, Michael crosses the city and returns home to his unsuspecting wife and two small children. Michael is living a double life, stretching out his wilting salad days with imaginary business trips and fake deadlines while his wife enjoys the exhausting misery of the little ones. It’s the best thing for his marriage, Michael figures. She can care for the new loves of her life as it seems only she knows how, and he can sleep until the afternoon. Can this double life continue indefinitely? In The Best a Man Can Get, best-selling comic novelist John O’Farrell takes readers on a dark romp through the soul of the contemporary male, torn between eternal adolescence and the very real demands of fatherhood. It’s wry, witty, and surprisingly charming.
 
“Sharp-witted slapstick.” —Publishers Weekly

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A hilarious and touching debut novel in the seriocomic Nick Hornby tradition.
 
Michael Adams is a composer of advertising jingles who shares a bachelor pad with three other guys. He spends his days lying in bed (a minifridge positioned perfectly within reach) and playing trivia games with his underachieving roommates. And when he feels like it, Michael crosses the city and returns home to his unsuspecting wife and two small children. Michael is living a double life, stretching out his wilting salad days with imaginary business trips and fake deadlines while his wife enjoys the exhausting misery of the little ones. It’s the best thing for his marriage, Michael figures. She can care for the new loves of her life as it seems only she knows how, and he can sleep until the afternoon. Can this double life continue indefinitely? In The Best a Man Can Get, best-selling comic novelist John O’Farrell takes readers on a dark romp through the soul of the contemporary male, torn between eternal adolescence and the very real demands of fatherhood. It’s wry, witty, and surprisingly charming.
 
“Sharp-witted slapstick.” —Publishers Weekly

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