NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK A comedy writer thinks she's sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions-a "smart, sophisticated, and fun" (Oprah Daily) novel from the author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep.
"Full of dazzling banter and sizzling chemistry."-People
"If you ever wanted a backstage pass to Saturday Night Live, this is the book for you."-Zibby Owens, Good Morning America
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, BuzzFeed, PopSugar, Harper's Bazaar, Real Simple, She Reads, New York Post
Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, a late-night live comedy show that airs every Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life.
But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the show, he joins the not-so-exclusive group of talented but average-looking and even dorky men at the show-and in society at large-who've gotten romantically involved with incredibly beautiful and accomplished women. Sally channels her annoyance into a sketch called The Danny Horst Rule, poking fun at this phenomenon while underscoring how unlikely it is that the reverse would ever happen for a woman.
Enter Noah Brewster, a pop music sensation with a reputation for dating models, who signed on as both host and musical guest for this week's show. Dazzled by his charms, Sally hits it off with Noah instantly, and as they collaborate on one sketch after another, she begins to wonder if there might actually be sparks flying. But this isn't a romantic comedy-it's real life. And in real life, someone like him would never date someone like her . . . right?
With her keen observations and trademark ability to bring complex women to life on the page, Curtis Sittenfeld explores the neurosis-inducing and heart-fluttering wonder of love, while slyly dissecting the social rituals of romance and gender relations in the modern age.
| ISBN: | 9780399590948 |
| Publication date: | 4th April 2023 |
| Author: | Curtis Sittenfeld |
| Publisher: | Random House an imprint of Random House Publishing Group |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 305 pages |
| Primary Genre | Literary Fiction |
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A book that makes you think, feel, and chuckle, Romantic Comedy is a treasure find for those who are just looking for a really good book to dive into this year. I look forward to going through Curtis's omnibus and being awed by her magnificent talent yet again.
For fans of SNL or television parodies such as 30 Rock or Studio 60, this is the perfect book for you! New to Curtis Sittenfeld, I was so impressed by her talent in creating (what seemed like) a recollection of her real life experiences that I actually stopped to see if she, indeed, worked on SNL. While her biography is very intriguing, she in fact did not. This leads me to believe she either binged on 30 Rock (like I have) or simply created a plausible universe that one could easily believe. In either case, to walk the halls of TNO along side Sally Milz was thrilling.... Read Full Review
