The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group

by Tama Janowitz

Book Overview

Pamela Trowel is single in New York City, and her ad sales job is as mundane as her love life is macabre; Alby, a liar and exhibitionist, shows up in the most unexpected places, and unfortunate moments; her creepy, masochistic boss Daniel falls for her in an obsessive way; Bronc, a rich playboy takes her to see sex shows involving pigs. Her options aren't exactly appetizing -- and then Abdul follows her home from a pizza parlor. Abdul is a clever...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517586983
• ISBN13: 9780517586983
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

The most fun and entertaining book ever!!

This book has never really got a fair shake. After SLAVES OF NEW YORK got so much acclaim, Janowitz was unfairly treated with the backlash reserved for those who become famous "too fast". A Cannibal In Manhattan was not a great work, but CROSSDRESSER most certainly was. It's extremely funny, whimsical, and daring. I've read it several times, and no other book in existence has ever made me laugh so hard. SLAVES was great, but I seem to be one of the few who feels this is even better. (I also like Kirsty MacColl, Flannery O'Connor, Scott Heim, Sam Phillips, John Waters, Todd Solondz, and French & Saunders, just in case you're wondering.)

Laugh-out-loud hilarious!

I found this book delightfully, quirkily hilarious. I can't think when I laughed so much while reading a novel. I think this would be a cool, quirky cult film. The humor is somewhat weird and sicko, but the heroine and the little boy are so endearing and the situations so ludicrous that the whole thing comes off as charming.

Hilarious

This book really made me laugh. It's sick, crude, and weird. Just trying to explain it is very hard because it's just one horrible thing after another. I laughed out loud, something rare for me to do during a book. The only problem I had with it is the ending just because I was hoping for a happier one I suppose. One of the reviews mentions how the title doesn't have much to do with the book but I beg to differ. I think it has a double meaning. Not only is it talking about a horrible accusing support group she went to once but it is also referring the the modern state of a man's postion. She often talks about how horrible the woman's movement was a disaster and now men had no place. They played this helpless role where they are no longer men but not quite women. Therefor, mentally, all men are crosser dressers. Instead of complaining about this any further though Pamela accepts the modern man and takes on the role as a man herself.