Man and Boy - Hardcover
Harry Silver has it all: a beautiful wife, a wonderful son, a great job in the media--but in one night he throws it all away.
Just yesterday Harry gave himself a shiny red sports car for his thirtieth birthday. Today he faces the baffling questions of a suddenly single dad:
--How do you wash a four-year-old's hair?
--Should he eat green spaghetti for breakfast?
--What do you tell his Mommy from the emergency room phone?
In this poignant and witty novel, Harry has to bring up his child alone, look after his parents, work out his relationships and hold down a job.
As millions of women have discovered before him, that is not as simple as it may have seemed.
Man and Boy is by turns funny, sharp, warm and heart-wrenching. It is a brilliantly engaging novel from one of the most gifted and influential commentators writing today.
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Tony Parsons' debut novel Man and Boy was named the Butler & Tanner Book of the Year at the British Book Awards this evening in London. Published by HarperCollinsUK, Man and Boy has sold over 750,000 copies and been on the British bestsellers list for over 50 weeks.
About the Author:
Sourcebooks, Inc. -- an independent publisher based in the Chicago suburb of Naperville -- holds the North American rights for Man and Boy, which is the inaugural title in its new fiction imprint, Sourcebooks Landmark. The novel, which had an initial print run of 50,000, began shipping to U.S. bookstores on February 14th. Man and Boy is a Literary Guild Featured Alternate this Spring.
Parsons is scheduled for an initial 10-city American tour beginning on March 19th; he will be stopping in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Seattle, Minneapolis and Denver.
Born to a blue-collar family in the East End of London, Tony Parsons became a music journalist, covering the new wave and punk rock explosion for the British music magazine NME. Parsons' award-winning journalism has also appeared in magazines such as GQ and Elle. He is currently a columnist for the Mirror and regularly appears on BBC TV's Late Review and in his own television documentaries. Man and Boy is his first novel.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0002257904
- ISBN 13 9780002257909
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages352
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