The hilarious tale of a newly full-time dad and awards-show "plus one" whose TV-writer wife has hit the big time
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 mid-level marketing executive whose wife's fourteenth attempt at a television 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?
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“In the LA entertainment world, Alex
Sherman-Zicklin is a plus one. The Emmy ceremony invitation is
addressed to his wife, Figgy, creator and writer of the cable show
Tricks, about a housewife running a prostitution ring out of a
scrapbooking shop, and the invitation notes, ‘plus one’…Debuting
novelist Noxon, himself a plus one to a top TV writer-producer, pens a
brisk romp that’s sometimes laugh-out-loud funny as it deals with the
serious issues of roles and communication in a marriage. And just
picture this on the big screen, with Jason Bateman as the lead.”
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Booklist