Like Brothers

Michael Bywater tells the fascinating and untold story of men and their friendships: how men feel about them, how they work, how ideas of friendship have changed and how it is that friendships between men go almost unspoken-of, even though they are often among the most nourishing and long-lasting relationships of their lives. At the book's heart is the story of Bywater's twenty-year close friendship with fellow-writer Douglas Adams, who died suddenly in 2001, aged forty-nine. His shockingly premature loss prompted Michael Bywater to re-appraise his own and others' feelings about male friendship itself. In "Like Brothers", Bywater movingly and hilariously tells the story of his friendship with Adams: how it began, grew, and weathered fallings-out and other storms, including a literal slap in the face with a wet fish. From there, the book ranges across time and cultures, looking at men's experience of friendship at school and university, in the military, and in cinema and literature from the Epic of Gilgamesh to contemporary 'buddy' movies.

ISBN 1847080367   Publication date 07 Sep 2009 ISBN13 9781847080363 (What's this?)   Published in London Publisher Granta Books   Height (mm) 234 Imprint Granta Books   Width (mm) 153 Format Hardback   Academic level General

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