Irish novelist Kennedy Marr is a first rate bad boy. When he is not
earning a fortune as one of Hollywood's most sought after script
writers, he is drinking, insulting and philandering his way through LA,
'successfully debunking the myth that men are unable to multitask'. He
is loved by many women, but loathed by even more including ex-wives on
both sides of the pond.
Kennedy's appetite for trouble is insatiable, but when he discovers that
he owes 1.4 million dollars in back taxes, it seems his outrageous,
hedonistic lifestyle may not be as sustainable as he thought. Forced to
accept a teaching position at sleepy Deeping University, where his
ex-wife and teenaged daughter now reside, Kennedy returns to England
with a paper trail of tabloid headlines and scorned starlets hot on his
bespoke heels. However, as he acclimatizes to the quaint campus Kennedy
is forced to reconsider his laddish lifestyle. Incredible as it may
seem, there might actually be a father and a teacher lurking inside this
'preening, narcissistic, priapic sociopath'.
STRAIGHT WHITE MALE is a wildly funny and whip smart tale of Kennedy's
transatlantic misadventures. It's an uninhibited and heartfelt look at
the mid-life crisis of a lovable rogue.
