RAVEN SMITHS MEN EB

Raven Smith

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9780008457532
• eBook ISBN: 9780008457518
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

'A brilliant writer.' Russell Tovey

'Thoroughly entertaining.' OTEGHA UWAGBA

'Funny and beautifully revealing.' BELLA MACKIE

'Wise, sharp and naughty.' THE OBSERVER

'Herein lie the men of Raven Smith. Each of them has left a mark, a memory, a stain, whether they meant to or not. Some hit deep, and I caught feels. Some I discarded like a clip-on neck tie'

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Raven Smith's Trivial Pursuits, comes a pin sharp, hilarious and incisive exploration of what it means to be a man in the modern day.

This book is about men because, in an annoying way, everything is. Funny men, tall men, charming men. Stepdads, actual dads and ripped 'sports dads'. Raven Smith has been trying to distil what it is about men that has kept him intrigued his whole life.

Part memoir, part exploration of the peculiar dynamics and amorphous boundaries of masculinity, Raven looks unflinchingly at his own history, offering a cautious reverence of a life lived in parallel with other men. Blending the personal, the primal and the perennial, these are Raven Smith's men in all their infuriating, labyrinthine complexity.

Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
6. 
   Foreword
7. 
   Fuck Men
8. Newquay
9. The Ghost
10. The Second Taste of Blackcurrant
11. New York
12. My Dad
13. The Kens
14. Schoolboys
15. Hungry
16. The Joy of Ex
17. Floor Wankers
18. Spotted Dick
19. Splits for Beginners
20. Arsewatch
21. The Flatmate
22. My Simon
23. You Too?
24. Porowski
25. Minesweeping
26. The Graduate
27. Dangerous Liaisons
28. The Ghost of Raven Past
29. The Misogynist Who Came to Tea
30. Lean-In
31. Cleaner
32. The Revelations of Raven Smith
33. 
    Everything I Know About Men
34. 
    About the Author
35. About the Publisher

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Fuck Men
• Newquay
• The Ghost
• The Second Taste of Blackcurrant
• New York
• My Dad
• The Kens
• Schoolboys
• Hungry
• The Joy of Ex
• Floor Wankers
• Spotted Dick
• Splits for Beginners
• Arsewatch
• The Flatmate
• My Simon
• You Too?
• Porowski
• Minesweeping
• The Graduate
• Dangerous Liaisons
• The Ghost of Raven Past
• The Misogynist Who Came to Tea
• Lean-In
• Cleaner
• The Revelations of Raven Smith
• Everything I Know About Men
• About the Author
• About the Publisher