Desperate Husbands by Richard Glover (English) Paperback Book

Description: Desperate Husbands by Richard Glover Lifts the lid on so called normal family life and reveals its soulful, hilarious absurdity. Welcome to a world where household appliances conspire against their owners, fathers practise ballet in the hallway and dead insects spell out SOS on the kitchen floor. This work follows on from "In Bed With Jocasta". FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description the new book from the author of In Bed with Jocasta and the Dags Dictionary. Meet Richard, the original desperate husband, and his partner, the fabulous but formidable Jocasta. And say hello to their teenage offspring - the teutonic Batboy and his irrepressible younger brother. Desperate Husbands lifts the lid on so-called normal family life, and reveals its soulful, hilarious absurdity. Welcome to a world where household appliances conspire against their owners, fathers practise ballet in the hallway and dead insects spell out an SOS on the kitchen floor. By turns sweet-natured yet perverse, familiar yet wildly original, Desperate Husbands may be the funniest book you read this year. Desperate Husbands is desperately, wickedly funny. I devoured it in one sitting, greedily checking ahead to see that I still had pages left. Richard Glover has done the miraculous - hes made ordinary family life extraordinarily entertaining. this is a must-read for anybody whos ever had a wife or a husband or a mother or a stove or a child or a pulse. Go ahead and open a page at random - youll laugh out loud. - Augusten Burroughs, bestselling author of Running with Scissors Author Biography Richard Glover has written a number of bestselling books, including Love, Clancy, The Land Before Avocado, Flesh Wounds and The Mud House. He writes regularly for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Washington Post, as well as presenting the comedy program Thank God Its Friday on ABC Local Radio. To find out more, Details ISBN0732282500 Author Richard Glover Publisher HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Year 2005 ISBN-10 0732282500 ISBN-13 9780732282509 Format Paperback Publication Date 2005-10-26 Place of Publication New South Wales Country of Publication Australia DEWEY A827 Pages 272 Imprint HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Language English Media Book Illustrator Ariel Padilla Birth 19730620 Affiliation Bond University Position Associate Director Qualifications Ph.D. Audience General NZ Release Date 2006-04-20 AU Release Date 2005-10-25 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159434570;

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