WHY MEN ARE NECESSARY AND MORE NEWS FROM NOWHERE BY RICHARD GLOVER, ABC BOOKS, $27.99.
Why Men Are Necessary is something like what you’d get if you crossed Seinfeld with Neighbours. An Australian family, doing nothing particularly extraordinary, is transformed into 24-carat comedy gold.
Richard Glover’s beloved Jocasta is a feisty woman “with the body of a goddess and the vocabulary of a wharfie”, she’s partnered with a “heroic” male, “handsome, intelligent, sharp of eye and mind”. You might guess who that could be. Their domestic adventures and those of sons, Batboy and The Space Cadet, are hilarious because of our instant connection with them, ordinary family events, and they are told with sly wit and side-splitting one-liners.
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