How Not to Be a Boy

How Not to Be a Boy

by Robert Webb
How Not to Be a Boy

How Not to Be a Boy

by Robert Webb

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Overview

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER RULES FOR BEING A MAN Don't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About Feelings But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone? Looking back over his life, from schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) to discovering the power of making people laugh (in the Cambridge Footlights with David Mitchell), and from losing his beloved mother to becoming a husband and father, Robert Webb considers the absurd expectations boys and men have thrust upon them at every stage of life. Hilarious and heartbreaking, How Not To Be a Boy explores the relationships that made Robert who he is as a man, the lessons we learn as sons and daughters, and the understanding that sometimes you aren't the Luke Skywalker of your life - you're actually Darth Vader.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781786890085
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication date: 05/29/2018
Edition description: Main
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 868,024
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Robert Webb has been a male for his whole life. As such, he has been a boy in a world of fighting, pointless posturing, and the insistence that he stop crying. As an adult man, he has enjoyed better luck, both in his work as the Webb half of Mitchell & Webb in the Sony award-winning That Mitchell & Webb Sound and the Bafta award-winning That Mitchell & Webb Look, and as permanent man-boy Jeremy in the acclaimed Peep Show. He also played Bertie Wooster in the acclaimed West End run of Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense. Robert has been a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman, and now lives in London with his wife and daughters, where he continues trying to be funny and to fumble beyond general expectations of manhood.

@arobertwebb

Table of Contents

Overture 1

Act 1

1 Boys Can't Get Enough of Dad 21

2 Boys Aren't Shy 39

3 Boys Love Sport 58

4 Boys Are Brave 79

5 Boys Are Never Teacher's Pet 101

6 Boys Don't Fall in Love (with other boys) 124

7 Boys Are Not Virgins 138

8 Boys Don't Cry 158

Act 2

9 Men Are Organised 197

10 Men Don't Take Themselves Too Seriously 216

11 Men Don't Need Therapy 239

12 Men Understand Women 261

13 Men Are Good at Directions 280

14 Men Know Who They Are 301

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