White Guys
  • Published: 1 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099501657
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99

White Guys

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A strikingly powerful novel of male friendship and loyalty from Anthony Giardina, the acclaimed author of The Country of Marriage, an American novelist in the tradition of Cheever and Updike

What if the perfect life isn't enough?

Back in 1970s Winship, Massachusetts, Billy Mogavero was everything his friends wanted to be - tough, sexy, graceful, a leader of young men. After a reunion twenty years later, Timmy O'Kane watches his old best friend charm his way into career success and an ideal marriage, and begins to question his own cosy, sensible life.

But then Billy and his pregnant wife are victims of a drive-by shooting, and Timmy is ensnared in a series of terrifying but seductive events that threatens to bring his life tumbling down around him...
  • Published: 1 October 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099501657
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Anthony Giardina

Anthony Giardina is the author of two novels, Men with Debts and A Boy's Pretensions, a collection of short stories, The Country of Marriage, and a number of plays that have been produced to critical acclaim in New York, Seattle, Yale and Washington. His stories and essays have appeared in Harpers, Esquire, GQ and the New York Times Magazine. He lives with his wife and children in Northampton, Massachusetts

Praise for White Guys

Brilliantly captures both the aspiration and self-loathing of the upwardly mobile American male

Michael Arditti, Independent

A careful accretion of detail and a deftly controlled narrative tone...powerful

Stephen Amidon, Washington Post

Vivid, compelling...Giardina is at his very best creating at times terrifying yet seductive prose out of everyday domestic drama

Irish Examiner

There is a tender immediacy to his prose, and White Guys is studded with beautifully observed moments...alert to the slightest emotional nuance between men, and between husbands and wives and parents and children

Daily Telegraph

Smart... Compelling... Perfectly handled

San Francisco Chronicle

Giardina has an extraordinary gift for describing the eddies of power in what seem to be familiar relationships

David Hare

I love men who can write about relationships as tenderly and honestly as Giardina does

Julie Myerson