Girlfriend 44

by Mark Barrowcliffe

Book Overview

From age ten, Harry has had just one ambition-- to find the one girl for him. Forty-three women and twenty-odd years later, he is still looking. He doesn' t ask for much: just a beautiful intellectual who doesn' t mind his constant infidelity. Harry' s roommate Gerrard did once find True Love-- but he didn' t realize it until the day she left him. Only two women have met his exacting criteria, and he' s not hopeful that he' ll find another. Even if...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312287682
• ISBN13: 9780312287689
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Griffin
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A guy's take on Relationships

I enjoyed this book immensely even though the character in it is vain, sexist and rude, a real guy's guy and a real guy's book. Harry, the main character, gets annoyed by everything in life and I mean everything. It's all very identifiable. There are so many poor guy books around these days but anyone who enjoys Nick Hornby / Steve Horsfall will love this.

Barrowcliffe is a master of the male confessional.

Women do not like this book. In fact, they don't seem to understand this AUTHOR at all. Barrowcliffe is a master of the male confessional, and the women who have reviewed his writing obviously have difficulty facing up to the honesty that Barrowcliffe laces into the descriptions and dialogs within his books. It is unfortunate, but true, that men are inclined toward a cycle of self destruction and are constantly the cause of their own undoing. The narrator of this book lives true to that premise and much of the book centers around the search for the right woman, the intricacies of courting, and the Mallory principle which has been the destruction (and justification) of so many men.Women don't want this to be the way men work, but Barrowcliffe's painful honesty when dealing with his subject matter is what makes this book truly stand out....Sorry ladies.

Buyer Beware

This book may contain more than you want to know about the workings of the male mind. "Girlfriend 44" is a laugh-out-lound/ groan-inside, novel about how men view women, dating, sex, themselves and each other. Prepare to be equally amused and HORRIFIED!

hilarious book

When I read the interesting beginning paragraph of this book, I decided to give it a try. I was however, expecting to find at the end that the book did not carry through (especially since this is the author's first novel). It turns out to be a winner -very funny. There are paragraphs where every sentence is funny. Only flip side I have to say is the ending. Not what I expected at all.

The Funniest Book I've Ever Read

Girlfriend 44 is the sort of book you always look for but can never quite find-the sort that you want to read in one sitting but you can't because it's so good you want it to last forever. You end up reading it at outdoor cafes and laughing out loud, not caring who hears you or what they think, you read it half hanging off of your bed, comfortably slumped as its spell overtakes you, you lope down the street with a goofy grin on your face as though you are in love.The setting is modern London, the heroes are Lost Boys who live for a pint and the perfect woman, but you don't have to be an Anglophile to appreciate the sarcastic irony of this male confessional.It's a male "Bridget Jones" or a "High Fidelity" without the music. There's even a bit with a dead body. Highest marks for this book.