The Book of George (e-book) (used book) | Kate Greathead | bookbook.eu

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From the author of the critically acclaimed Laura & Emma comes a The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. for our times: Kate Greathead's razor-sharp but big-hearted excavation of millennial masculinity, The Book of George.

If you haven't dated a George, you know someone who has: a young man brimming with potential but unwilling to take the steps necessary to advance in the world; noncommittal to his long-suffering girlfriend; occasionally pleased with himself before reverting to his natural state of self-loathing; distant from but still occasionally crashing with his mother.

Here, Kate Greathead paints one particular, unforgettable George in a series of wryly funny and surprisingly resonant snapshots of his life from adolescence through early middle age. From the novel he's always kind of writing to his bungling remarks to his girlfriend Jenny, George can't get out of his own way.

And yet. As maddening as he can be, George is also hard not to root for at least a little. No, he doesn't want to have children anytime soon, but when it really counts, he's a capable babysitter. Yes, he lets Jenny pack up his entire childhood bedroom while he plays his old Game Boy until dawn, but he tries to make it up to her by cooking pancakes the next morning. No one is more aware of his own flaws, and no one wants him to be better more than he himself does (except for maybe Jenny and his mother). As laugh-out-loud funny as it is devastatingly astute, The Book of George is a clear-eyed, unexpectedly moving kaleidoscopic portrait of millennial masculinity.