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Plus One
Contributor(s): Noxon, Christopher (Author), Noxon, Christopher (Illustrator)
ISBN: 1938849426     ISBN-13: 9781938849428
Publisher: Prospect Park Books
OUR PRICE:   $22.46  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2015
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous - General
- Fiction | Family Life - General
- Fiction | Biographical
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2014013282
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.7" W x 8.4" (1.05 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Family
 
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Publisher Description:

"Plus One is a smart and funny novel about Hollywood, but where it truly shines is in Noxon's stunning and painfully accurate depiction of the complex rhythms and growing pains of a marriage." -- Jonathan Tropper, author of This Is Where I Leave You and One Last Thing Before I Go

Well observed, honest, and laugh-out-loud funny, Plus One tells a story from the inside of show business about being on the outside.-- Matthew Weiner, creator of Mad Men

Christopher Noxon's debut novel Plus One is a comedic take on bread-winning women and caretaking men in contemporary Los Angeles. Alex Sherman-Zicklin is a mid-level marketing executive whose wife's fourteenth attempt at a TV pilot is produced, ordered to series, and awarded an Emmy. Overnight, she's sucked into a mad show-business vortex and he's tasked with managing their new high-profile Hollywood lifestyle. He falls in with a posse of Plus Ones, men who are married to women whose success, income, and public recognition far surpasses their own. What will it take for him to regain the foreground in his own life?



Contributor Bio(s): Noxon, Christopher: - Christopher Noxon is an accomplished journalist who has written for such publications as The New Yorker, Details, Los Angeles Magazine, Salon, and The New York Times Magazine. His first book, Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up (Crown), earned him interviews on such shows as The Colbert Report and Good Morning America and generated features in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Talk of the Nation; Ira Glass of This American Life called the book "an eye-opener." Noxon happens to be married to a top TV writer/producer and does the school chauffeuring for their three children, so he knows whereof he speaks regarding Plus Ones. He lives in Los Angeles.