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02.15: Chad Kultgen
2013-01-15 00:37:54| Powells Books Events Calendar
Five years ago, Chad Kultgen's first novel, The Average American Male, was launched to a storm of controversy. The book — with its callous yet charismatic narrator — became a cult classic, embraced by male and female readers alike who recognized the often hilarious, often uncomfortable truth behind Kultgen's satirical take on the world. Half a decade later, Kultgen's narrator is back but is now facing the prospect of permanent life as a married man — an existence even more frustrating than his previous life. From birthday sex to interns to parenting, Kultgen's uproarious narrator looks upon the institution of marriage with the same deadpan smirk he has brought to the rest of his sex-addled, perennially disaffected life. As relentlessly obsessive as its precursor, The Average American Marriage (Harper Perennial) takes satire to new heights of cockeyed depravity.
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