Gerald Everett's review
Lucky Man
by Ben Tanzer (Goodreads author!)
Frat-ire...what a great word!
Coined by NY Times writer Warren St. John because his editors wouldn't let him say "dick lit" in print. I like the sound of boychik lit instead, but then you have those folks who never heard the Yiddish expression and think it's some kind of she-male!
Gerald Everett's review
Lucky Man by Ben Tanzer (Goodreads author!)
Gerald Everett's review
rating:
recommended for: fans of fratire
To the extent that Lucky Man is a first-person narrative about young men coming of age, you could say it’s fratire. But this is damned serious stuff, making the book much more ambitious, I think, than some of the other puke-on-my-own-shoes books in that genre.
This is, as the reader will guess soon enough, a last-man-standing story. In the end, the question is, “What’s it all mean?” Tanzer gives no clue, but I do give him a great deal of credit for at least raising the question.
A longer review is posted at Boychik Lit
This is, as the reader will guess soon enough, a last-man-standing story. In the end, the question is, “What’s it all mean?” Tanzer gives no clue, but I do give him a great deal of credit for at least raising the question.
A longer review is posted at Boychik Lit
Frat-ire...what a great word!
Coined by NY Times writer Warren St. John because his editors wouldn't let him say "dick lit" in print. I like the sound of boychik lit instead, but then you have those folks who never heard the Yiddish expression and think it's some kind of she-male!