Straight White Male

Kennedy Marr is a writer from the old school. Irish, sharp-tongued, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard, and try to screw every single woman you meet. He's living in LA, fucking and drinking and insulting his way through Californian literary society. He's also close to rock bottom. Then, suddenly, a solution presents itself. Marr is to be the unlikely recipient of the W. F. Bingham Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Modern Literature u worth a million dollars. But the prize does not come without a price: he must spend a year teaching creative writing at the university where his ex-wife and estranged daughter now reside. As Kennedy acclimatises to the sleepy campus, inspiring revulsion and worship in equal measure, a series of near-disasters force him to reconsider his precarious lifestyle. Incredible as it may seem there might actually be a father and a teacher lurking inside this 'preening, narcissistic, priapic, sociopathic sex-fiend'. Or is therea