What do we need men for? : a modest proposal / E. Jean Carroll.
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- ISBN: 9781250215437
- Physical Description: x, 273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2019.
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- Baker & Taylor
The veteran advice columnist behind the long-running "Ask E. Jean" draws on interviews with a diverse range of women collected during a rollicking road trip, in a darkly humorous exploration of the actual role men play in society. - Baker & Taylor
The veteran advice columnist behind "Ask E. Jean" draws on interviews with a diverse range of women collected during a rollicking road trip, in a darkly humorous exploration of the actual role men play in society. - McMillan Palgrave
A The Washington Post 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019
"A work of comic genius." âMary Norris, The New Yorker
âDarkly humorous and deadly serious.â âSibbie O'Sullivan, Washington Post
âA compulsively interesting feminist memoir.â âVirginia Heffernan, Slate
"Somehow hilarious, in the way that only E. Jean could have written it" âLeigh Haber, Oprah Magazine
America's longest running advice columnist goes on the road to speak to women about hideous men and whether we need them.
When E. Jean Carrollâpossibly the liveliest woman in the world and author of the âAsk E. Jeanâ advice column in Elle Magazine, realized that her eight million readers and question-writers all seemed to have one thing in commonâproblems caused by menâshe hit the road. Crisscrossing the country with her blue-haired poodle, Lewis Carroll, E. Jean stopped in every town named after a woman between Eden, Vermont and Tallulah, Louisiana to ask women the crucial question: What Do We Need Men For?
E. Jean gave her rollicking road trip a sly, stylish turn when she deepened the story, creating a list called âThe Most Hideous Men of My Life,â and began to reflect on her own sometimes very dark history with the opposite sex. What advice would she have given to her past selvesâas Miss Cheerleader USA and Miss Indiana University? Or as the fearless journalist, television host, and eventual advice columnist she became? E. Jean intertwines the stories of the fascinating people she meets on her road trip with her âhorrible history with the male sexâ (including mafia bosses, media titans, boyfriends, husbands, a serial killer, and a president), creating a decidedly dark yet hopeful, hilarious, and thrilling narrative. Her answer to the question What Do We Need Men For? will shock men and delight women.