Mark Barrowcliffe, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-29146-4
Barrowcliffe's follow-up to Girlfriend 44
establishes him as the king of the cheeky, ironic romantic tagline, but his follow-through leaves much to be desired in this labored comedy about a 30-something British fellow who suddenly finds himself
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Mark Barrowcliffe, Author . Soho $25 (277p) ISBN 978-1-56947-522-5
As a 12-year-old in England in 1976, Barrowcliffe (Lucky Dog
) made a fateful choice: he started playing Dungeons and Dragons. Role-playing games were just beginning their rise, and Barrowcliffe, along with 20 million other socially maladapted boys,
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Mark Barrowcliffe, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-26166-5
""You are not perfect,"" explains the laddish, caddish Harry Chesshyre to his 43rd girlfriend, Emily, in the break-up letter that opens this Machiavellian relationship comedy. Throughout his quest for the perfect mate, the 32-year old Harry...
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Mark Barrowcliffe, Author St. Martin's Griffin $13.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-28768-9
Barrowcliffe's third novel (Infidelity for First-Time Fathers) is another exercise in deadpan drollery with a hapless everyman at its center-but an ambitious strain of fantasy sets it apart, bringing him out of Nick Hornby's shadow and into John...
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