Guys in Suits

Van Whitfield

ISBN 10: 0385498462 / ISBN 13: 9780385498463

Published by Doubleday Books, 2001

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A group of friends try to make sense of love and life in the new millennium in this hilarious novel from Van Whitfield, author of Something's Wrong with Your Scale and Beeperless Remote. After years of disappointment, Simon Washington has grown tired of the Washington, DC, dating scene. He's desperately looking for a wife when he runs into his first love and determines to regain her affections. Meanwhile, Simon's best friend Stuart Worthington is doing his best not to settle down when he also rekindles a relationship with an ex-girlfriend. As it happens, both friends are in immediate need of dates for their annual New Year's vacation. With the clock ticking and their tickets waiting, Stuart and Simon lay plans to convince these old flames to accompany them, only to have a shocking revelation threaten everything at the last minute. With its page-turning plot and hilarious insights, Guys in Suits is a delightful novel that shines a spotlight on the imperfections of men, the enigmas of women, and the perils they both face in the quest to find someone right.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Guys in Suits
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385498462
• ISBN 13: 9780385498463
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Bestselling author Van Whitfield is back with another hilarious peek into the romantic lives of today’s everyday Joes.

Readers across the country are discovering the marvelously original voice of Van Whitfield as he champions the romantic trials and tribulations of today’s everyman. In Guys in Suits, a laugh-out-loud expos? of how differently women treat blue-collar guys and white-collar “suitors,” Whitfield shines the spotlight on the desperate bus-driving Simon and his stockbroker best friend Stuart, D.C.’s consummate ladies’ man.

Having just turned thirty, Simon is in search of his soul mate and determined to settle down. Stuart has different plans. He subscribes to the “Quintessential Male Manifesto,” the 60-day rule–a theory that suggests men are inherently bound to successfully coexist in relationships for just 60 days!

Weeks 1—2 are the “Glory Days,” when a man actually looks forward to “communicating” with a potential mate. Weeks 2—4 are known as the “Realm of Reality,” the period in which the gloss wears off. The “Prozac Period,” weeks 5—6, is a time of high anxiety because the woman thinks she’s found Mr. RightÉbut the guy knows he’s in too deep. And the “Dawn of Destruction,” the final era of the 60-day rule, is when the guy is ready to bail, but unfortunately, the woman isn’t!

As Simon and Stuart’s annual New Year’s Eve investment group vacation approaches (with their two “happily” married buddies and their wives, no less) they’re in a mad dash to find dates. As the deadline for this fun-in-the-sun extravaganza approaches both Simon and Stuart have met potential Ms. Rights and are confident that for the first time, they’ll take their dream dates on their annual island getaway. Everything looks good, but just before the tickets are booked a staggering discovery threatens to upset Simon and Stuart’s seemingly perfect plan.

With all the laughs and hubris of a sweet old-fashioned comedy, Van Whitfield takes readers on a madcap romp through the rocky terrain of today’s relationships.

About the Author

VAN WHITFIELD is the author of the Emerge and Blackboard bestselling novel Beeperless Remote, which has been optioned as a feature film, and Something’s Wrong with Your Scale! He lives in suburban Washington, D.C.