About the Book
You know him. He's the funny, sweet guy with the great eyes who asks you a million questions and seems mesmerized by every reply. He takes you on the greatest, longest date of your life. He swears he loves cats and cuddling. And his apartment is so clean. He just might be the One.
Then he doesn't call, doesn't write. He sees you coming down the street and he hides behind a tree. He's a cad. And this is his story.
After all the girl's guides to sex in the city, here -- at last -- is the view from the other side of the bed. In Cad: Confessions of Toxic Bachelor, Rick Marin offers himself up for an in-depth look at man's superficial nature.
At 28, a brief, doomed first marriage thrusts him back into Bachelor Hell. A journalist as eager to make it in Manhattan as with its female population, our emotionally myopic hero can never seem to tell if the woman in front of him is too crazy or too sane, until she gets too close. Falling out of love as often as he falls in, he vows more than once to clean up his act, only to relapse into another bender of beauties, blow-offs and bad behavior -- all in desperate pursuit of the woman who can redeem him.
In this rollicking, frequently insensitive and ultimately poignant memoir, Marin proves a master of the light touch even in his darkest hours. Part Hugh Hefner, part Hugh Grant, his tale is a rake's progress (in spite of himself) from incorrigible cad to reconstructed romantic. It is one man's story, but many men will read it as their own. And for any woman who has ever wondered, "What was he thinking?" This is what he was thinking.
About the Author Rick Marin has been a reporter at the New York Times Sunday Styles section, a senior writer at Newsweek and secretly wrote an advice column on men for a major women's magazine. He lives in New York and Sag Harbor.
The Reviews
"I've been there." --Steve Martin, Author of Shopgirl
"The shocking truth about what some men really think about women. Read it if you dare." --Candace Bushnell, Author of Four Blondes
"99 per cent of men give all the rest a bad name. Thanks to Cad, women now . . . know the difference." --Karen Duffy, Author of Model Patient
"Very funny, often desperately funny, and as sure-footed about the Manhattan dating/mating scene as anything I've read." --Bruce Jay Friedman, Author of The Lonely Guy
"Hilarious and surprisingly heartfelt, this is a book every woman should read . . ." --Andy Borowitz, The Borowitz Report
"An outrageous work of chauvinism." --Lucinda Rosenfeld, What She Saw...
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