Year of the Cock

The Remarkable True Account of a Married Man Who Left His Wife and Paid the Price

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By Alan Wieder

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From a powerful new voice in nonfiction comes this electrifying chronicle of a married man who leaves his wife to pursue a carefree bachelorhood – only to plunge into an abyss of shame, regret, and penis envy.

Thirty-year-old Alan Wieder has everything a man could possibly want: a nice home in L.A., a thriving Hollywood career, and to top it all off, a beautiful and adoring wife. Then one day in 2005 – the Year of the Rooster – he wakes up with questions: Have I settled down too soon? Am I consigned to a humdrum future of marriage, kiddies, home-cooked meals and hybrid SUVs? How the %&! did this happen to me?

And just like that – after ten years in a committed relationship – Alan decides to walk out on his wife to pursue his fantasy of becoming a hardcore bachelor. Explaining very little, thinking even less, he dives into his exhilarating new single existence – buying a vintage Porsche, moving into a tastefully decorated bachelor pad, ignoring his wife, and bedding as many chicks as possible. However, to Alan’s surprise and dismay, becoming a single dude also unleashes in him a torrent of crippling insecurities that he didn’t even know he had. And soon, his would-be swingin’ bachelorhood is cut short – very short – by a strange and shameful obsession that drives him to utter madness.

Some men leave their wives only to discover that the grass isn’t greener. What Alan Wieder discovers – about the perils of newfound freedom, and about his own fragile male psyche – is far more agonizing and wretched. In this riveting and brutally honest memoir, Alan recounts the true story of his impulsive, wild, and ultimately disastrous foray into bachelorhood. A tragicomic tale of betrayal, sexual (mis)adventure, and ultimately redemption, Year of the Cock marks the debut of a remarkably talented new writer.

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On Sale
Jul 22, 2009
Page Count
320 pages
ISBN-13
9780446550802

Alan Wieder

About the Author

Alan Wieder is an oral historian who lives in Portland, Oregon. He is distinguished professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina and has taught at the University of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. In the last fifteen years, he has published three books and numerous articles on South Africans who fought against the apartheid regime. The latest book, Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid, was published in 2013 by Monthly Review Press.

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