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Having a one-night stand with a colleague from work.
The rash purchase of luxury items you can't afford.
Being left by your wife.
Losing your job.
Suddenly becoming a single parent.
If you are coming up to 30, whatever you do, don't do any of that.
It will fuck up your whole day.
So begins Man and Boy, Tony Parson's foray into fiction. Or non-fiction. Rumoured to be a roman à clef, the well-known journalist and broadcaster writes the story of a successful TV executive who brings up his child alone after a failed marriage--much like Parson's own life.
Harry Silver, the book's anti-hero, has it all: a beautiful wife, an angelic son and a high-paying job. His life is just about perfect, until one night he casually sleeps with a slim redheaded coworker who has "that kind of fine Irish skin that is so pale it looks as though it has never seen the sun". After the fateful night, his life falls apart. He loses his job and his wife in rapid succession, and finds himself a single, unemployed parent. It is an excellent education for a man who up until now has been immature and irresponsible, and Parsons has some strong points to make about the puerility of far too many contemporary males: "Being a man is like being chained to the village idiot." At times he piles on the disasters and plot-twists a little too thickly, but the ending is wildly romantic, redemptive and optimistic. In other words, Harry grows up. -- Christopher Hart --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Slightly flawed in places but packs a strong emotional punch,
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This review is from: Man and Boy (Paperback)
Having finished this book I was left with mixed feelings. Whilst it started promisingly enough, the development of some of the characters seemed to stall a little midway through. I was left slightly confused by the actions of Gina, who claimed to be so opposed to any infidelity that she willingly threw away an apparently happy 7 year marriage, yet still felt comfortable in getting involved with a married man. I would also have expected Harry to fight a little harder to save his marriage than he actually did and the time scale in whih everything happened (just over 6 months) seemed unrealistically fast. However I still found this book to be funny, endearing and very very touching. The high point was most definitely Harry's relationship with his Father which was beautifully written and had me in floods of tears far more times that the 4 promised by a reviewer on the jacket. I've always thought of Tony Parsons as a somewhat cynical writer, so this aspect of the story came as a very pleasant surprise.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
forget it,
By A Customer
This review is from: Man and Boy (Paperback)
Cannot believe the hype about this excuse for a book ,all I can say it took up unneccessary space in my bag for my holiday.Any one who has spent more than ten minutes with a man, a boy, or a woman in anytime between 1995 and today can do better than this
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
An Everyday Story of Medja Folk.........,
This review is from: Man and Boy (Paperback)
This book is BLOODY AWFUL! The Irish Times lied to me! I got to page 50 and thought, well, if I want to hear people going all sentimental over small children, I can get that at work... and then I remembered that I'd paid UKP3 for it and read it to the end. Didn't enjoy it. I don't know any other single parents who can lose their job and still take obnoxious sprog to fancy Italian eateries...primarily to chat up waitresses, of course. Sorry. It was that bad. No wonder Amazon have it on special offer. I only gave it one star 'cos he didn't spell anything wrongly.
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