The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life

Read by the author, an essayist and stand-up comedian, this collection of hilarious essays is about a single guy attempting to live on the right side of hip.

If Peter Hyman is a metrosexual, a straight man with gay tastes, then he is one reluctantly, being loath to hitch himself to an au courant cultural trend, unless doing so would get him a movie deal or an actual girlfriend. But beneath this well groomed façade lies a question: Is "metrosexual" a marketing ploy created by clever admen to sell overpriced moisturizer, or is it, like "hippie" and "preppy" before it, a genuine archetype? Who can say?

Peter Hyman's musings, more pop cultural than philosophical, range from the heartfelt to the absurd, whether he's describing the scotch-soaked grief of a bad breakup or his unfortunate decision to undergo a Brazilian bikini wax. With sophistication and enviable wit, The Reluctant Metrosexual chronicles the promiscuity and perils of modern manhood.