My Life as a Man

Peter Tarnopol was a man with an ideal- his own view of what “being a real man” was all about.

But he didn’t quite match up to his ideal, and it haunted him trapped in a disastrous marriage to Maureen and ensnared by his mistress Susan, he kept going back over the past and wondering where it had gone wrong. But Tarnopol was a writer too, and all his stories were about the same problem – time and time again he tried to work it out on paper, and sometimes it came out a tragedy, sometimes a farce… always a hopeless mess…