Nude Men: A Novel
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Jeremy Acidophilus is not really named after the yogurt culture—he just likes to tell people that he is. Actually, he thought of that line years ago but has never been brave enough to use it on someone—until he meets Lady Henrietta over a dish of green Jell-O in his new favorite coffee shop. A painter of naked men for Playgirl magazine who has taken her name from The Picture of Dorian Gray, Henrietta has the power to make Jeremy do all kinds of things he would not normally do, including disrobe for a stranger. He thinks that he must be falling in love. Think again, says Sara, the artist’s outrageously precocious eleven-year-old daughter as she sets out to seduce the new model.
From the gray streets of Manhattan to the pastel kaleidoscope of Disney World, Jeremy’s journey of self-discovery is both irresistibly absurd and uncannily real. Everyone—from his cat Minou to a dancing magician named Laura to the agents hired by his mother to taunt him—has advice for Jeremy. Before he can hear any of it, though, he first needs to find out how to listen to himself.
A witty and wild exploration of sexuality, creativity, and the paradoxes of self, Nude Men is the rare novel with the power to charm and shock in equal measure.
Amanda Filipacchi
Described by the New York Times Book Review as a “lovely comic surrealist,” Amanda Filipacchi’s fiction has been translated into thirteen languages and her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic. Her novels have been called “hilarious and thought-provoking” by Tama Janowitz and “whimsical and subversive” by Edmund White. Filipacchi earned her MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University.
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Reviews for Nude Men
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I have mixed feelings about this book. Well written, interesting characters - at first, that is. Later, I got thoroughly annoyed with most of them. Why? I hate books and movies where the principal character just floats through life, having things happen to him, doing stupid things just because he goes along with everything, never takes any rational initiative, etc. I cannot enjoy books when you cannot ever see WHY a person acts as he does. Nude Men certainly falls into this category. So: this one was not for me. Finished it yesterday and you can still see the irritation in this review - phew!I know it is just me, my husband loves this kind of book/movie.