Modern Man: Life's Like That (ePub)
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Modern Man: Life's Like That is a comedy about the pressures and expectations on men as they try to find their way in the world. The main character is called Modern Man because he is a kind of generic interpretation of the 'Average Joe,' neither especially gifted nor a total moron.
Everybody faces challenges and Modern Man has his fair share. The humour comes from how he deals with them. The reader will probably identify personally with some of his reactions and recognise the actions of friends in others.
I have used my own experiences as a backdrop to the plot and included some events that actually happened but this is not an autobiography.
This is my first novel, although I have been writing short stories for about 20 years. The nudge to work on a bigger project came from a friend's reaction to one of my earlier compositions. Karen had been diagnosed with breast cancer and I felt she might need a laugh.
It was a combination of her encouragement, the right environment and enough creative inspiration that powered me through. It took almost two years to write but I wasn't in a hurry. My writing time is Saturday and Sunday mornings when everybody else in the house is still asleep, the coffee is fresh and hot and the sounds of the countryside occasionally break through my subconscious firewall.
My writing inspiration comes from an interest in observational comedy, especially in situation where humour can be hard to find. A few of the events in Modern Man: Life's Like That actually happened or are an extension of real events. The characters are not based on real people but you may well recognise features of their personalities in your own friends and family.
My own career path has been one of unplanned opportunity chasing and that has provided the backdrop for some of this book. I studied engineering at college, worked on a kids summer camp in New York state and operated as air cabin crew for British Airways (don't call BA crew flight attendants, they might just rip your face off!) before settling into a career as a software engineer. I'm really not qualified to be called a geek; I have no interest in science fiction and don't own a single games console. although that may just be an age thing.
Linguistically the things that wind me up most these days are the over use of the words 'obviously' and 'basically'. Obviously there is room in the language for these words but basically, if it's obvious there's no need to say it and if it's not, then it's not obvious.
- Autor: Jon Cobb
- 2016, Englisch
- Verlag: Jon Cobb
- ISBN-10: 137052031X
- ISBN-13: 9781370520312
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2016
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