内容简介
Michael Adams is a composer of advertising jingles who
shares a bachelor pad with three other guys. He spends his days
lying in bed (a minifridge positioned perfectly within reach) and
playing trivia games with his underachieving roommates. And when he
feels like it, Michael crosses the city and returns home to his
unsuspecting wife and two small children. Michael is living a
double life, stretching out his "wilting salad days" with imaginary
business trips and fake deadlines while his wife enjoys the
exhausting misery of the little ones. It's the best thing for his
marriage, Michael figures. She can care for the new loves of her
life as it seems only she knows how, and he can sleep until the
afternoon. Can this double life continue indefinitely? In The Best
a Man Can Get, best-selling comic novelist John O'Farrell takes
readers on a dark romp through the soul of the contemporary male,
torn between eternal adolescence and the very real demands of
fatherhood. It's wry, witty, and surprisingly charming.