Description: Renowned for his barbed-wire wit, Vanity Fair literary critic James Wolcott turns his wicked eye on the vagaries of romance in this viciously funny debut novel about the ways men and women communicate -- and don't -- in the never-ending search for a soulmate. Johnny Downs is a man down on his luck. Dumped by a string of girlfriends, Johnny has just been given the boot again. Hurt, baffled, and most of all, clueless, Johnny enlists Darlene Rider, a sassy Southern belle with a Hannibal Lechter heart and tactical genius in the relationship game, to help him cast off his bachelor habits and rebrand himself as "husband material". What follows is a crash course in love and romance as only Darlene could teach it -- and James Wolcott could write it.

Humorous, biting, insightful, The Catsitters is part The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, part The Art of War, and is sure to delight men and women alike. Between the popular columnist's fans and the storm of media interest in the book, The Catsitters will be the book to read this summer.

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