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'Leonard Michaels writes prose of exquisite clarity.' Ian McEwan
A men's club didn't exclude women. It also didn't exclude kangaroos. It only included men.
The late 1970s. Seven men -- friends, acquaintances, and strangers -- gather in a suburban home in Berkeley, California. They intend to start a men's club, the purpose of which isn't immediately clear to any of them.
But as the evening wears on and the drinks flow faster, they discover a powerful and passionate desire to talk to unburden and to share, to try to comprehend their feelings, their insecurities, their lives.
Kramer claims he's slept with six hundred women; Berliner and his wife beat each other as foreplay; Cavanaugh -- big handsome guy -- is haunted by his former life as a professional basketball player. And Terry just can't get over Deborah Zeller.
The Men's Club is a scathing, pitying, absurdly dark and funny novel about manhood and masculinity.
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'Chekhov and Kafka, after consulting Chaucer, might have collaborated on The Men's Club. It is excellent.' --The New York Times
'Leonard Michaels was an original; everything he wrote, like it or not, came alive. His prose moved at a fast clip and paid readers the compliment of assuming they could match his mental velocity, with a concise, pungent and pyrotechnic style that tolerated no flab.' --The Nation
'One of the best American stylists of the 20th century.' --David Bezmozgis
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'Leonard Michaels was an original; everything he wrote, like it or not, came alive. His prose moved at a fast clip and paid readers the compliment of assuming they could match his mental velocity, with a concise, pungent and pyrotechnic style that tolerated no flab.' --The Nation
'One of the best American stylists of the 20th century.' --David Bezmozgis
Leonard Michaels (1933-2003) was one of the most admired and influential American writers of the last half century. He was the author of five collections of short stories, and two novels: Sylvia (1993), and The Men's Club (1981), as well as numerous essays and screenplays.
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- Publication date2016
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