Anthony Giardina is the author of many novels, including Men with Debts and A Boy's Pretensions, as well as a collection of short stories, The Country of Marriage, and a number of plays that have been produced to critical acclaim in New York, Seattle, Yale and Washington. His stories and essays have appeared in Harpers, Esquire, GQ and the New York Times Magazine. He is a visiting professor at the Michener Center of the University of Texas. He lives with his wife and children in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Brilliantly captures both the aspiration and self-loathing of the upwardly mobile American male