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Go ahead, make my bed.
Ballantine
October 2008
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Featuring: Linc Menner
320 pages
ISBN: 0345481089
EAN: 9780345481085
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
For more than a decade, Linc Menner has raised the status of
househusband to an art form. . . .
While his wife,
Jo, brings home the bacon, Linc Menner holds down the
fort–his gourmet cooking is sublime, his cleaning unrivaled,
and his devotion to his daughter, Violet,
unparalleled.
But when the Menners relocate from
upstate New York to the steamy beaches of Naples, Florida,
life takes an unexpected turn. As the Menners renovate their
new home Linc’s bliss turns into a war zone of contractors,
dry wall dust, and chaos. And suddenly being surrounded by
guys whose faces go blank as he expounds on the virtues of
lump-free gravy makes Linc realize he has forgotten what it
feels like to be a man.
So Linc trades his flip-flops
for work boots, and his wild mop of hair for a barbershop
buzz, and marches his flabby physique to the nearest
gym–attracting the secret devotion of one of Violet’s
teacher in the process. And his stunned family watches
helplessly as they lose the man who keeps them all together.
To make matters worse, it’s hurricane season and there’s a
category 5 heading right for Naples. As life on the home
front explodes into hilarity and catastrophe, Linc must
chart his own delightfully crooked course to finally become
the Man of the House.
Praise for Ad Hudler’s
Househusband
“With self-deprecating humor and adroit
expression, Hudler delves deep into the American psyche of
gender roles. . . . The dialogue rings with
authenticity.”
–The State (Columbia,
S.C.)
“Winning . . . [a] breezy comic
outing.”
–The New York Times
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