No More Mr Nice Guy
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:6th May '99
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
'A savage and scabrously entertaining sex comedy, the likes of which I have not encountered since Philip Roth's masterly Sabbath's Theater' - Sunday Times
Frank Ritz is a television critic. Let him out of the house and his first instinct is to go looking for sex. Deviant sex, treacherous sex, even straight sex, so long as it's immoderate - he's never been choosy. But what happens when sex is all you know but no longer what you want?
Frank Ritz is a television critic. His partner, Melissa Paul, is the author of pornographic novels for liberated women. He watches crap all day; she writes crap all day. It's a life. Or it was a life. But now they're fighting, locked in oral combat. He won't shut up and she is putting her finger down her throat again. So there's only one thing for it - Frank has to go.
But go where? And do what? Frank Ritz has been on heat more or less continuously since he could speak his own name. Let him out of the house and his first instinct is to go looking for sex. Deviant sex, treacherous sex, even straight sex, so long as it's immoderate - he's never been choosy. But what happens when sex is all you know but no longer what you want?
A savage and scabrously entertaining sex comedy * Sunday Times *
Howard Jacobson is one of the funniest writers alive…his writing pulsates with nerve and edge; it is colossal in comic precision * Daily Telegraph *
Howard Jacobson is one of the funniest writers around... It's hard to imagine a more entertaining book * Observer *
A very funny, very intelligent novel... How many of Jacobson's contemporaries have described the male condition with such wry, unsparing honesty? * Sunday Telegraph *
Brilliant and funny... No More Mr Nice Guy shows invention on every page, every paragraph. Jacobson is unique * Evening Standard *
ISBN: 9780099274636
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 17mm
Weight: 192g
272 pages