- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Kensington Publishing; First edition (3 Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 075820616X
- ISBN-13: 978-0758206169
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,952,209 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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At 22, Toby Griffin wants it all - fame, fortune and a good-looking boyfriend by his side. For now, he's got a freelance job for an online magazine, a sublet in the East Village and a group of friends with a taste for fashion, booze and other men. But everything changes when Toby suddenly gets the chance of a lifetime, working as a personal assistant to a hip film mogul. Now he's swilling champagne with the best of them, but he still feels that making it in Manhattan isn't as easy as he thought - until one tragic night changes his life and gives him power he had never dreamt of.
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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
With a fantasic storyline and realistic characters it will make you laugh and cry with them and will make you read it again and again
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Quick fun, but nothing remains
29 Mar 2004
Format:Hardcover
The novel is a fast read with moments of fun, but the author seems unable to create a memorable character. Toby neds a lawyer at one point, but worries he can't afford one, even though his parents pay his rent in Manhattan and his mother just sold her company for $200 million. Huh? Many moments like this make the novel seem rushed.
Alos, why does this novel have to be shelved in the gay section? It seemed pretty mainstream to me. I hate this hyper-classification.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Promising Debut Novel
1 Jun 2004
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Looking only at the inside flap of the book (come on, we're gay, we do it) it's hard to imagine that a strikingly handsome author of Dolby descent would be able to write a novel about being (or perceiving oneself as being) .. well, average, insecure and confused as to one's place in the world.
Actually READING the book, though, you find that his main character is all of those things. Cute and young enough to possibly make up for not being TOTALLY hot, Toby, the main character, seems to do nothing but screw up opportunities to 'elevate' himself to the A-list in a snotty, screwed-up New York of the new millenium.
The beauty of this book, though, is that like Sex & the City and Less than Zero - two books this one has been likened to - it has nothing to do with New York or snotty A-lister's or even young almost-hot men.. rather, it's a story about a person coming of age in a time where everything seems possible, everything seems desirable. His Toby, however, is not unlike the rest of us: he wants to be successful, he wants to find love, and he wants to maintain his sense of self but has to do so in spite of horrible bosses, frenemies (the one Sex and the City reference that fits - the episode where friends act like enemies) and a bank account hovering just above zero.
The approachability and enjoyability of this novel is not based on the fact that it's glitzy or set in New York or filled with drama and scandal - that has been done, to varying levels of success, by other authors. What made this book so enjoyable was the fact that the main character was real, honest about his vanities and shortcomings, and in the end decided that being a good person and doing the right thing for his friends, family and self, brought him the happiness that everything else had not.
(Side note: for those of you who read and enjoyed Bart Yates' "Leave Myself Behind," the main character in this book reminds me of a grown up "Noah" - and the fact that Mr. Yates endorses the book on the dust cover should persuade you to read the book!)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
The Trouble Book
25 Feb 2005
Format:Hardcover
The best part of this book is the inside back dust jacket where there is a really hot picture of the author. (Unfortunately, his website is pretty bare bones with no additional hot pics.) As for the novel, it's good but not great. There's just not much substance to the story. A plus is that the book is free of the continuity mistakes, typos and grammatical errors frequently found in books of this genre, as it was published by a professional house. (The fact that I'm even making this comment relates back to the minimalist substance of the story.) But it is a first novel and we can hope that Tom Dolby will grow and grow. The potential is certainly there.
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