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An underground sensation when it was
published in 1996, Van Whitfield's lively romantic
comedy and Ben Franklin Award Finalist, takes a revealing and altogether
delightful look at dating in the nineties.
With a style that is simultaneously self-effacing and downright
hilarious, Beeperless Remote is Van Whitfield's tale of
one man who has been thrown in the dating pool and is struggling to get
out.
Shawn Wayne is a former All-American. He's single,
employed, hard-bodied and looking for his ideal woman. Shawn may have an
obsession with ESPN's "SportsCenter," money, and going to the
gym, but he's a good guy. According to his best friend, Kelly, however,
he may to "expand his universe" a little to find the right
woman.
Shawn's search for the woman of his dreams leads to dating misadventures
ranging from nightmare blind dates and underage flings to encounters
with married swingers. Held hostage by today's technology, where dating
has become a complex web of answering machines and cell phones, he finds
the rules have changed, and that he now has to contend with six
different types of women:
1 - "I just got out a bad relationship."
2 - "I'm not interested in a relationship, I
just have friends."
3 - "What is it you said you do for a
living?"
4 - "Men are dogs!"
5 - "My biological clock is ticking, I need a
husband."
6 - "I'm single, I'm interested, and, yes,
I'm interested."
Will Shawn find his "6"? Read this hilarious Blackboard and
Emerge bestseller and find out. |
