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B a c h e l o r K i s s e s
Bachelor Kisses is a comic story of modern love and life when you're 20-something, single and male. It is the mess Jon Marshall makes of his life when it stops making sense - a comedy of fallibility and misjudgments.
Jon, Rick and Jen share takeaway food rituals, sporadic cocktail nights and the quest for love. Rick seems destined to long, lonely nights beneath his Porky Pig doona. Jen consumes men like chocolate bars. And Jon gets lucky in a way he's never expected - more women than he knows how to handle. A medical graduate with grand plans for the hormone of darkness, he finds his life is spiralling way out of control.
As with all good comedy, Bachelor Kisses includes the themes of science, death, inappropriate behaviour and injudicious intimacy. It's comedy, but it's not lightweight. It has a story, characters who are a lot like real people, and plenty to say about hamsters, rocket design, ambivalence, ambition and contemporary definitions of maleness.
Nick Earls has a gift for capturing the quirkiness in regular lives, and the desperation in regular crises. He writes not so much dirty realism as untidy realism, dealing with people whose lives aren't grubby enough to be dirty, but there's something of the shambles about them nonetheless. Bachelor Kisses is a book for the members of the chemical generation who can't even take a Sudafed without spinning out.
(Promotional blurb from Bachelor Kisses)
Praise for 'Bachelor Kisses'
"Cute, funny, sexy"Cleo
"A fast-paced comedy written with verve and intelligence."
The Bulletin
"Nick Earls has written a gem in Bachelor Kisses. It's funny, clever and brilliantly observed."
The Australian's Review of Books
"Bachelor Kisses is a beautifully written book by a genuinely talented writer."
The Sydney Morning Herald
"The appearance of Brisbane writer Earls's second novel is a real cause for celebration ... Buy a Nick Earls novel and you need never be sad again."
Who Weekly
"Fans of Nick Hornby's single male angst will enjoy this offering from Aussie author Nick Earls ... It has laugh out loud moments and will make men cringe when they recognise themselves and give women some valuable insights into the male psyche."
Blackpool Gazette, Lancashire Evening Post, Wigan Evening Post
"Sometimes you wonder what goes on at publishers' editorial meetings. 'I know. Let's stick a photo of a grinning naked bloke on the cover with a badly superimposed hardback covering his modesty - that'll draw in all those potential male readers!' Criminally-bad packaging aside, this is a snortingly funny and sincere tale of the life and loves of a young Australian doctor. Like Earls' fantastic first novel, Zigzag Street, this is frequently hilarious and at times rather touching. The first Aussie to make me laugh out loud since Jason Donovan."
The Mirror
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