The lonely guy ; and, The slightly older guy / Bruce Jay Friedman ; with a new afterword by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedman, Bruce Jay, 1930-2020.

Standardized Title:

Lonely guy's book of life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Single men--Humor.

Single men.

Middle-aged men--Humor.

Middle-aged men.

Man-woman relationships--Humor.

Man-woman relationships.

Genre:

Humor.

Physical Description:

ix, 301 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, [2001]

Summary:

With its hilariously honest look at the single male in America -- from his apartment furnishings to his career struggles to his dating habits -- Bruce Jay Friedman's book The Lonely Guy's Book of Life quickly became a hit when it first appeared in 1978, winning raves from critics and inspiring Steve Martin's classic cult comedy The Lonely Guy. Twenty years later, Friedman returned to the subject with The Slightly Older Guy, finding his quarry no longer alone and not so young anymore, but just as funny. Now these classic humor books are available together for the first time in a single paperback edition from Grove Press. With a new afterword about "The Considerably Older Guy," this edition deals with such topics as divorce and grandchildren. Offering advice on exercise (walk, don't run) and insomnia (read Solzhenitsyn), Friedman took the pulse of the aging American male -- and found him still in need of some good satire.

Notes:

First work originally published: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1978; 2nd work originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, c1995.

Contains:

Friedman, Bruce Jay, 1930-2020. Slightly older guy.

Lonely guy's book of life.

Slightly older guy.

ISBN:

0802138330

OCLC:

46952114