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Original Title:	Ladies' Man
ISBN:	039597772X (ISBN13: 9780395977729)
Edition Language:	English

Ladies' Man

Richard Price

Paperback | Pages: 264 pages

Rating: 3.52 | 648 Users | 51 Reviews

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”Kenny makes a move.”

Kenny Becker is having trouble with his girlfriend. She used to turn him inside out with the force of her passion, but recently she has been as cold as an icicle in a snowstorm. The whiplash from “let’s get it on” to “I’m just not interested” leaves Kenny about to come unglued. The more she pushes him away, the more he wants her. As he tries to explain: ”The need to get laid is an honorable need.”

It isn’t just about lustful sex, though that is still the main objective, but with a guy like Kenny in the midst of reevaluating his life on a daily basis, it is also about being desired by someone. He is insecure enough to do 150 sit ups every night, turning his stomach into a rippling topography that looks like the knobby tires on a dirt bike. He knows he is reasonably attractive...so...what gives?

When he catches her pleasuring herself, it is like being slapped in the face by a 500 pound silverback gorilla. La Donna, the girlfriend, moves out, and Kenny, who thought he was lonely before, discovers there are whole subterranean levels of loneliness. He is thirty years old, and though everything you read will tell you that 30, 50, 70 are just numbers, they are only numbers if you are ecstatically happy with your life. To see them as just arbitrary markers you must be able to believe that misery and expectations are something long ago eradicated, like the plague or polio . Kenny dropped out of college 25 credits short. I can’t even begin to tell you how many people I’ve met in my life who have told me they were one semester or two short of getting their degree.

I always think to myself, what do you want me to say?

Kenny is, not surprising, in a dead end job selling Bluecastle products door to door. I’ve done that type of work for short spans in my life. It can be rewarding financially, but ultimately it becomes soul crushing work. Your best customers are the loneliest people on the planet, widowed women with twenty cats. They buy, but what they are buying is your time, a brief interlude of conversation for the cost of hand lotion they don’t really need or scented candles that they will never burn.

He quits. ”Kenny makes a move.”

With the girlfriend out of the equation, his apartment begins to feel more and more like that Death Star garbage compactor in Star Wars. Thus begins his odyssey; there are Trojans, but they aren’t Greeks, through the peep show, massage parlors, singles bars looking for “love in all the wrong places.” He thinks his driving need is sex, but as we follow along with Kenny, it becomes more and more clear that what he wants is intimacy. He wants his love all in one place. He wants a girlfriend, but as he clumsily tries to pick up women, he shows more interest in making new friends with the other desperate guys he meets. Even when he is successful, it is disastrous. ”Something was pissing me off. I felt this mood of time being wasted. An enraged silence.”

What is the alternative? Get a cat?

His friend from high school, Donny, appears out of the mist like a battered life preserver in the middle of an ocean of despair. ”Donny. Who the fuck was Donny? He was a memory. A character from some novel I’d read years before.” Donny has gone through some cha-cha-changes. Donny takes Kenny some places that make him uncomfortable. Kenny is going to piss some readers off with his flagrant use of the N word and the colorful words regarding sexual orientation, but there is so much bluster wrapped around all these utterances that I realized very quickly that all of his prejudices, like they are for most people, are borrowed. None of them are based off personal experience, but concocted from fears appropriated from the previous generation. They are as fake as a spray on tan.

This is an honest novel. Richard Price has stripped away the layers of this character and left him completely exposed to the reader. We see into his mind. We see his embarrassing impulses. We cringe over his awkward interactions. We feel panic for him as his frolicking mind misses third and floats in neutral, leaving him unable to make a rational decision. He has no role models in his life. He only has the mythology of a paint by numbers guide (education, career, wife, kids etc.) of how to be successful. Going back to school is just a fall back position, a last beacon of hope that a magical piece of paper will land him the castle he desires. We have seven days with Kenny, and when I found myself untethered from Kenny, I kept thinking to myself he is so close to a transformation that could prove to be completely liberating or completely disastrous.

Kenny will make a move.

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Title	:	Ladies' Man
Author	:	Richard Price
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 264 pages
Published	:	April 15th 1999 by Mariner Books (first published 1978)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Contemporary

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I went back to the late 70s for this Picador reprint and quite enjoyed the trip. This is not, however, a pleasant novel. Price, who later wrote for The Wire and had such best-sellers as Clockers and Samaritan, writes tough. In this case his subject is loneliness and losers, chiefly Kenny, a man of determined ambitions but little accomplishment. As we meet him he has taken a sabbatical from college and is selling household supplies door-to-door. We soon suspect that household supplies has more

From the moment he published his first novel, The Wanderers, Richard Price has been praised for his incredible talent for writing dialogue. His prowess is so great in that area, in fact, that many of his other literary skills are sometimes overlooked, including his remarkable talent for revealing the inner workings of his character's minds. It is a talent that is put on display in Ladies Man perhaps more than any of his other works.The convoluted and contradictory internal world of "ladies' man"

Meh. Didn't love but didn't hate it either. Couldn't really relate to anything in the story. Definitely a more masculine oriented book. I guess i thought it would be more of a humorous book but it really wasn't. It was mostly about the character's odd anxieties. However, i did enjoy the author's descriptions of new york city and its diversity.

First read at the age of 25, when I was a few years younger than Kenny Becker; read a second time at 36, now a few years older. What jumps out at me on this re-read is how much more acute Kenny's desperation for some human connection feels to me now. Kenny's loneliness gets hidden behind his carefully-crafted image as some kind of Lothario in the gleeful pre-AIDS era, but updated for the millennial generation he'd be masking the same essential loneliness through some equally vacuous social-media

Really enjoyed this book Ladies' Man by Richard Price. Not written for kiddies or sweet little old ladies, here is a piece of fiction written by a real man for real men or those women like myself who want to know the inner workings of how some men, most men think. New York born and raised protagonist Kenny Becker's a confused, frustrated, semi-misogynist-romantic approaching middle age and the dreaded mid-life crisis... a lousy dead end job, flaky girlfriends, friends (more like acquaintances)

Kenny makes a move.Kenny Becker is having trouble with his girlfriend. She used to turn him inside out with the force of her passion, but recently she has been as cold as an icicle in a snowstorm. The whiplash from lets get it on to Im just not interested leaves Kenny about to come unglued. The more she pushes him away, the more he wants her. As he tries to explain: The need to get laid is an honorable need.It isnt just about lustful sex, though that is still the main objective, but with a guy

Prior to this, I'd never read anything by Richard Price. Lately I've been reading a lot of novels by Edith Wharton. Let me tell you, going from Edith Wharton to Richard Price is a literary 180-degree-social-conventions-hairpin-turn that will damn near give you whiplash.Set in New York in the late 1970s, the book is a first person account of a week in the life of Kenny Becker. On the verge of turning thirty, he suddenly finds himself single and jobless. Seeking to assuage his loneliness and