THE AMAZING NEW NOVEL FROM CURTIS SITTENFELD: 'A rollercoaster of modern love and dating' STYLIST 'One of my all-time favourite authors. A brilliantly written, funny page-turner, I want to read it all again' PANDORA SYKES 'I am obsessed. A warm, wise, magnanimous and extremely funny novel. ROMANTIC COMEDY should be prescribed to anyone needing their mood lifted' ELIZABETH DAY A TV script writer thinks she's over romance, until an unlikely love interest upends all her assumptions: a humorous, subversive and tender-hearted novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of Rodham, American Wife and Prep. _____________
Life is (not)* a Romantic Comedy... With a series of heartbreaks under her belt, Sally Milz - successful script writer for a legendary late-night TV comedy show - has long abandoned the search for love.
But when her friend and fellow writer begins to date a glamorous actress, he joins the growing club of interesting but average-looking men who get romantically involved with accomplished, beautiful women.
Sally channels her annoyance into a sketch, poking fun at this 'social rule'. The reverse never happens for a woman. Then Sally meets Noah, a pop idol with a reputation for dating models. But this isn't a romantic comedy - it's real life. Would someone like him ever date someone like her?
Skewering all our certainties about why we fall in love, Romantic Comedy is a witty and probing tale of how the heart will follow itself, no matter what anyone says. It is Curtis Sittenfeld at her most sharp, daring and compassionate best.
'Curtis Sittenfeld is in a league of her own' GUARDIAN
'Anyone who reads Sittenfeld will read anything she ever writes' THE TIMES
| ISBN: | 9780857527493 |
| Publication date: | 6th April 2023 |
| Author: | Curtis Sittenfeld |
| Publisher: | Doubleday an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 320 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
