Straight White Male

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<p><b>Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet.</b> <b></b> <b></b>Hes writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way through Californian society, but also suffering from writers block and unpaid taxes. Then a solution presents itself Marr is to be the unlikely recipient of the W. F. Bingham Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Modern Literature, an award worth half a million pounds. But it does not come without a price: he must spend a year teaching at the English university where his ex-wife and estranged daughter now reside.</p><p>As Kennedy acclimatises to the sleepy campus, inspiring revulsion and worship in equal measure, hes forced to reconsider his precarious lifestyle. Incredible as it may seem, there might actually be a father and a teacher lurking inside this preening, narcissistic, priapic, sociopath. Or is there</p><p><i>Straight White Male</i>is a no-holds-barred look into the mid-life crisis and the contemporary male sexual psyche. It is a brilliant new satire from one of Britains sharpest writers.</p>

Autorenportrait

John Niven was born in Irvine, Ayrshire. He is the author of the novella<i>Music from Big Pink</i>and the novels<i>Kill Your Friends</i>,<i>The Amateurs</i>,<i>The Second Coming, Cold Hands</i>,<i>Straight White Male</i>, The Sunshine Cruise Company and<i>No Good Deed.</i>

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