Dead Sexy - Hardcover

Lette, Kathy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074324804X ISBN 13: 9780743248044

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

God, apparently as a prank, devised two sexes and called them 'opposite'. For 5000 years, the sex war has raged, with still no truce in sight. While birds and insects all pair off happily, breeding away without the aid of Internet dating sites and GSOH's - the male and female of the human species are constantly at war. We're supposed to be the higher animal life form, but you don't see squid going on radio dating quiz programmes to get laid, now do you? A local London radio station runs a 'Desperate and Dateless' competition. A computer has matched - physically and emotionally, psychologically and intellectually - what they predict to be the perfect pair. Kit: diamond-studded ears, American, with friends in low places, believes women are little more than a life support system to an ovary. And then Shelly: pin-stripe-underpanted, cultured, classical guitarist, thinks optimism is an eye disease, hates all men. They meet the day they are to be married...

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Review

Kathy Lette's Dead Sexy is a dyspeptic account of the reality show from hell; music teacher Shelly is entered by her pupils for the computer date of a life-time--marriage, honeymoon and a large cash bonus if she and her husband make a go of it. The trouble is that every single thing the highly attractive Kit Kincade tells her is a complete lie--his mane of blond hair is a wig. Shipped off with him to a tropical island in the middle of civil war and natural disaster, and surrounded by television folk of an untrustworthiness which makes even Kit look savoury, Shelly is hopelessly confused, not least by her own feelings.

Tightly plotted and stuffed with witty one-liners, Dead Sexy is what we expect from Kathy Lette--a lightweight romp that is no stranger to deeper feelings. The complex lies the characters tell are not always entirely opposed to the inner truth of their emotions--there is a real distinction made here, at times a snobbish one, between those characters who lie out of habit and those who fib out of necessity. --Roz Kaveney

Review

Following the success of Altar Ego, Foetal Attraction and Mad Cows, ex-newspaper columnist, sitcom writer and rock singer Kathy Lette gives us another humorous chick-lit publication, Dead Sexy. This time the romance revolves around a couple called Kit and Shelley, who are matched up through a dating competition run by a local radio station. Although the computer has found them compatible in every way imaginable, the couple couldn't be less alike; Kit considers women to be little more than baby machines and Shelley is a man-hater. A comic-tragic situation arises when the couple meet for the first time. on their wedding day. This is a light-hearted satire on the dating game.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 074324804X
• ISBN 13: 9780743248044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400