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As heard on This American Life and NPR's All Things Considered, Brett Leveridge spins mostly true tales of small-town Lotharios and big-city in a voice that is simultaneously hip and homespun--and utterly his own--in Men My Mother Dated and Other Mostly Trues Tales, a finalist for the 2001 James Thurber Prize for American Humor.
There's something universal in these tales of the dating life, peopled with well-intentioned boys next door, two-timing playboys, and traveling roustabouts with a girl in every town. You'll meet the fellow behind Mom's first arrest; get the unexpurgated truth about winking Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing; and learn why a young woman would consent to see The Eddie Cantor Story six times in two weeks--with six different men. Leveridge holds forth on many other topics as well, offering his decidedly contrarian views on major holidays, hilarious skewerings of television ads, and a bittersweet account of the life of a straight man often presumed to be gay.
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humor, humorous essays, short stories, Biography, Anecdotes, New York Times reviewedPlaces
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Men My Mother Dated: And Other Mostly True Tales
2000, Villard
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0375504001 9780375504006
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