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journalist's provocative, spellbinding account of her eighteen months
spent undercover will transform the way we think about what it means to be
a man.
Following in
the tradition of John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me) and Barbara
Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed), Norah Vincent immersed herself in a
cultural experience and reported back on what she observed incognito. For
over a year and a half she ventured into the world as Ned, with an
ever-present five o'clock shadow, a crew cut, wire-rimmed glasses and her
own size 11 1/2 shoes, a perfect disguise that enabled her to observe the
world of men as one among them. The result is a sympathetic, shrewd and
thrilling tour de force of immersion journalism that's destined to
challenge preconceptions and attract enormous attention.
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"This
gripping book got me through a delayed transatlantic flight beside a
shrieking baby. Could I say more? It was high-risk stuff, Norah Vincent's
undercover research into what men are like when they're in the places
where men are men. The reader's heart beats fast at the chances she took.
In adventure writing like this it is the quality of the adventurer that
matters. Norah Vincent's perceptiveness, and above all her large
sympathies, make her the perfect guide."
-Nuala
O'Faolain, author of ARE YOU SOMEBODY?
"An
extraordinary human document, rich in empathy and insight. Readers
expecting a light read about a diverting stunt will find themselves taking
a riveting and richly illuminating journey into some of their own deepest
truths. You start out peeping into a window and end up staring into a
mirror."
-Bruce Bawer, author of A PLACE AT THE TABLE
"A
fascinating, original and often hilarious long day's journey into the
world of men. Posing as a man and infiltrating the female-free places
males congregate, Norah Vincent finds the male precincts to be a lot
better -- and a lot worse -- than most women ever
imagine."
-Christina Hoff Sommers, author of WHO STOLE FEMINISM? and
THE WAR AGAINST BOYS
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