What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887621902 ISBN 13: 9780887621901

Publisher: Thomas Allen Pub, 2005

Synopsis

Are the men you know obsessed with strange details? Do they sometimes seem to have less interest in you than they do in box scores and the history of the bolo tie? Do they become sexually aroused at unusual moments--perhaps while reading a history of the Battle of Trafalgar? Why are they fixated on cars and heroes and strippers and silence? Do they ever think about anything but sex? Are they ever faithful? And how can a man be so headstrong about not asking for directions and such a wimp about pain? What I Meant to Say: The Private Lives of Men answers these and other questions about the male animal--whether you're a woman seeking enlightenment, or a man looking for company. After all, there's a lot to clear up. Thanks to the women's movement and gay liberation, contemporary manhood has changed beyond recognition in the past forty years. At the same time, the age-old preoccupations of men--their unreachable loneliness, the unstoppable physicality of their bodies.

About this title

About the Author

Ian Brown is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. He is the author of the national bestsellers The Boy in Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son, Man Overboard: True Adventures with North American Men, and Free Wheeling, which won a National Business Book Award. Brown’s reporting and writing have won six gold National Magazine awards and two National Newspaper Awards. A roving feature writer for the Globe and Mail, he is also a contributor to This American Life on U.S. public radio, and host of both CBC Radio’s Talking Books and Canada’s pre-eminent documentary television series, “Human Edge” and “The View From Here.” He lives in Toronto with his wife and two children. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Thomas Allen Pub
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887621902
• ISBN 13: 9780887621901
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Brown Ian