ABOUT A BOY

Putnam Berkley, New York, 1998.  ISBN 1-57322-101-5.  2 cassettes with approximate playing time of 3 hours.  Still in shrink wrap which has small tears.  Read by David Cale.  ‘… stars a guy called Will, who doesn’t really want any children.  He wonders why it bothers people that he lives so happily, alone in his fashionable, Lego-free flat, with massive speakers and an expensive cream-colored rug that no kid has ever thrown up on.  Then Will meets Angie.  He has never been out with a mom before.  And it has to be said that Angie’s long blond hair and big blue eyes are not irrelevant to his sudden reassessment of his attitude toward children.  She is truly beautiful.  And truly beautiful women do not, traditionally, go out with him.  Then it dawns on Will that maybe Angie goes out with him because of the children.  Maybe children democratize beautiful, single women …’ (from rear box)