{"product_id":"straight-white-male-john-niven","title":"Straight White Male - John Niven","description":"\u003cp\u003eKennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe’s writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way through Californian society, but also suffering from writers block and unpaid taxes. Then a solution presents itself – Marr is to be the unlikely recipient of the W. F. Bingham Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Modern Literature, an award worth half a million pounds. But it does not come without a price: he must spend a year teaching at the English university where his ex-wife and estranged daughter now reside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Kennedy acclimatises to the sleepy campus, inspiring revulsion and worship in equal measure, he’s forced to reconsider his precarious lifestyle. Incredible as it may seem, there might actually be a father and a teacher lurking inside this ‘preening, narcissistic, priapic, sociopath’. Or is there…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStraight White Male\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a no-holds-barred look into the mid-life crisis and the contemporary male sexual psyche. It is a brilliant new satire from one of Britain’s sharpest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laimbrain Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60690890555726,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1071\/9526\/9454\/files\/John_bc8a707c-2857-4b88-a8e2-0ef282d1e21a.jpg?v=1788782368","url":"https:\/\/laimbrainbooks.com\/products\/straight-white-male-john-niven","provider":"Laimbrain Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}