Straight White Male - Tapa blanda

"Straight White Male is a heartbreaker; a poignant literary treatise on the all-too-mortal battle between human individual desire and social need, disguised as a high-octane novel of laddish excess." (Irvine Welsh)

"There's nothing faster, sadder or funnier than John Niven on men. I cried three times and laughed fifty. Magnificent." (Caitlin Moran)

"John Niven has much, much more fun with Kennedy's drinking, fornicating, fighting, time-wasting antics than with his putative rehabilitation, and the reader does, too. We can't help rooting for Kennedy, a seducer but never a misogynist; a charmer who rushes at life with zest and brio . Straight White Male is a sharp and knowing satire of the film industry, publishing and academia ... Thoroughly enjoyable." (Suzi Feay Guardian)

"It takes confidence to write a book critiquing books and writers, with a central character who's abundantly free with his views, but Niven shouldn't be underestimated.The tone here is authentic . Funny and angry, for sure, yet also thought and humane . Straight White Male is strong indeed." (The Times)

"Straight White Male is in some ways a return to the coruscating satirical landscape of Niven's debut, yet blended with a maturity and emotional depth that will have the reader shedding a tear as well as laughing in guilty outrage .[Niven] creates a truly moving examination of male midlife crisis, and what it means to be a son, a father, a husband and all the rest. Hilarious and heartfelt in equal measure, this is another candidate for novel of the year." (The Big Issue)