num_pages: 249
description: Still Looking is a comic novel about single men that also serves as a satire on the current men's movement. It is written from the point of view of a man who is part of a men's group designed for each member to relive the one great mythic journey in his life when all truths are revealed and all lessons are learned. This heroic journey (or prime story) finds the main character looking back to a time when he and three of his single friends were struggling to find the right woman while bouncing back and forth between a small midwestern college town and the nomadic singles' circuit of nearby Toledo, Ohio. The inspiration for the book was "Marty," the Oscar-winning '50s movie about aging bachelors and their problems making romantic connections in a relatively simple time. The narrator's prime story in Still Looking, however, takes place in the early '80s--that post-free love, pre-AIDS pocket of time when the battling in the sexual revolution was perhaps at its fiercest--and is examined through the prism of the men's movement of the convoluted '90s, where nothing is ever simple. Still Looking, approximately 90,000 words in length, opens in the present day with Ray Powell--now past 50--getting ready to tell his prime story to his Friday night men's group.
language: English
title: Still Looking: A Novel Concerning Single Men
titlecomplete: Still Looking: A Novel Concerning Single Men
ratings_count: 2
places: Ohio
publisher: Flf Pr