Summary
Laura Zigman: Men's Treasure
Men. For most women, these strange beings who share life with them on this planet are completely unfathomable. What meaningful principles (if any) govern their thoughts, decisions, and actions? What theory is based on their completely incomprehensible behavior? For Jane Goodall, a thirty-year-old agent whose job it is to get first-rate guests for a popular late-night talk show, men have always been an insoluble puzzle. And then she met an almost perfectly rare specimen of the male gender: the show's producer, Ray Brown, a man who does everything right, a man who can be understood, a man worth living with. But at the peak of love's rapture comes a rough sobering up. Jane, rejected and totally confused, full of self-pity and the feeling that she somehow hid the breakup herself, will try to find inner peace by investigating whether there is a reason for men's behavior.
By carefully studying her friend and new roommate Eddie, who changes girls literally like shirts, and by taking a scientific approach to the problem of men's actions in general, Jane comes up with an interesting theory that governs men in dealing with women: it is, namely, a theory "New cows". Jane will find the answer to the eternal, above-mentioned questions by comparing the behavior of sexually active males of the human species with the behavior of sexually active males of other mammals, in this case - bulls.
"Male Treasure", the first novel of writer Laura Zigman, with its ironic, caustic and witty observations, will make you laugh just as much as you are ready to admit to yourself the unpleasant but inexorable truths that expose the patterns of human sexual behavior. species.
(KZŽ)
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