Publisher Description

"Behind every great man there's a great woman . . . and in Noxon's telling, behind every great woman there's a charming, deeply conflicted guy (sometimes holding a very expensive handbag). Hilarious and unflinching, Plus One is a funny, sharply observed, heartbreaking look at love, power, and happily-ever-after in Hollywood."--Jennifer Weiner, author of Who Do You Love, The Next Best Thing, and Good in BedNew in paperback after a successful run in hardcover, Christopher Noxon's debut novel Plus One is a comedic take on breadwinning women and caretaking men in contemporary Los Angeles. Alex Sherman-Zicklin is a midlevel marketing executive whose wife's fourteenth attempt at a TV pilot is produced, ordered to series, and awarded an Emmy. Overnight, she's sucked into a mad show-business vortex and he's tasked with managing their new high-profile Hollywood lifestyle. He falls in with a posse of Plus Ones, men who are married to women whose success, income, and public recognition far surpasses their own. What will it take for him to regain the foreground in his own life?

Author Biography

Christopher Noxon is an accomplished journalist who has written for such publications as The New Yorker, Details, Los Angeles Magazine, Salon, and The New York Times Magazine. His first book, Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up (Crown), earned him interviews on such shows as The Colbert Report and Good Morning America and generated features in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Talk of the Nation; Ira Glass of This American Life called the book "an eye-opener." Noxon happens to be married to a top TV writer/producer and does the school chauffeuring for their three children, so he knows whereof he speaks regarding Plus Ones. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Description for Sales People

Offers behind-the-scenes look at world of television and Hollywood from someone who started as an outsider but has come to know it well Hardcover edition won solid media attention and reviews, including from the New York Times, The Telegraph (UK), Hollywood Reporter, Elle, and several NPR stations. Author's wife is the creator of popular television shows Orange is the New Black and Weeds Author's first book received accolades from This American Life's Ira Glass, the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The New York Sun, and more; he is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker, Details, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Magazine, and Salon Author has been interviewed on the Colbert Report and Good Morning America Notable literary and Hollywood connections Publication timed to coincide with Father's Day, to give a media hook for the book's theme of fatherhood

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