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Ballantine
July 2006
Featuring: Lucy Stone
224 pages
ISBN: 0812971906
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Contemporary Chick Lit
A biologist studying patterns of sexual selection, Lucy
Stone knows a lot about mating–particularly that in the
animal kingdom, males will go to any length to attract
females. Why, then, are their human counterparts so hopeless
in courtship? This is the question that Lucy and her best friend, Martha
McKenna, struggle to answer. Consider Adam, Lucy’s boyfriend
of two years, who demonstrates on an ostensibly romantic
camping trip that he can’t build a fire, split wood, or
jump-start a car. Worse still, he’s scared to go into the
woods after dark. Or take Jesse, Martha’s younger brother,
an opera aficionado and neurotic extraordinaire who can’t
summon the courage to make the first move on the woman he’s
crazy about. And what about the extensive list of men with
whom Martha has endured the torments of the first date. But then there’s Cooper Tuckington, Lucy’s best friend from
college. Born and bred on his family’s West Virginia dairy
farm, Cooper fits anyone’s description of a man’s man, and
yet he is chivalrous and charming. During his annual visit
to New York City, he rewires Lucy’s lamps, builds her
shelves, and holds forth on subjects from great painters to
the great outdoors, all the while pulling out chairs and
opening doors for the ladies. Surely, think Martha and Lucy,
the men in their lives would benefit from the tutelage of
someone who knows how to treat a woman. Thus, Man Camp is born. With a little feminine persuasion,
Lucy and Martha convince Adam, Jesse, and a handful of their
other male acquaintances to visit Cooper’s farm, where they
will learn everything a guy should know, from cars to
carpentry to chivalry–and that’s just the C’s. But life on
the farm isn’t exactly as it seems–and the boys soon prove
themselves in ways the women would never have imagined. In
the process, Lucy and Martha themselves learn a good bit
about life and love. The perfect can’t-put-it-down novel for all of us who’ve
needed to bring out the inner man in the men we love, Man
Camp is a brilliant, witty, and insightful romp through the
wilds of dating and mating.
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