We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of An Unlikely Friendship
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- Synopsis
- From the best-selling author of The End of Your Life Book Club comes a warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing friendship over the course of forty years.‘Moving. Salted with intelligence and empathy’ New York Times Book Review‘A page-turner’ New Yorker‘Really shines’ San Francisco Chronicle‘Gorgeous’ Sebastian Junger -------------Imagine a secret society which pairs you with your polar opposite.You meet regularly.What would you talk about?Could you become friends?Will is bookish, quiet, gay, manning AIDS helplines.Maxey is loud, a wrestler, a Jock, intent on a military life.But paired together – over dinner, beers, pool games – they forge an extraordinary and resilient bond.We Should Not Be Friends is an account of their odd-couple relationship, its ups and downs, twists and turns, the misunderstandings and the trust built over forty turbulent years.-------------‘A rare view of male friendship . . . succeeds because Maxey comes across as a great character, a warm and devoted friend’ NPR‘Schwalbe has an uncanny ability to use his personal experience as a springboard for universal truths’ Los Angeles Times‘A charming read with plenty of surprises. Celebrates not only an unlikely friendship, but the strange turns a life can take’ Wall Street Journal‘Schwalbe’s memoir shines. Written like a true friend’ Daily Mail
- Copyright:
- 2023
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781405953276
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780241594612, 9781405956192, 9781405953269
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Date of Addition:
- 04/02/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Will Schwalbe
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Entertainment, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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