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Book Review of Self-made Man

Self-made Man
Self-made Man
Author: Norah Vincent
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
Book Type: Paperback
reviewed on
Helpful Score: 2


Great book! The book is well-written, easy-to-read and held my attention. I finished it in a couple of days. The author spent 18 months as a man by basically infiltrating different social and work groups to learn more about the male experience in the world. She joins a bowling league, works as a door-to-door salesman, visits a monastery, goes to sex clubs and dates women as a man. She is very observant and gains some really great insights into the male psyche and also some insights about women too. She reveals herself as a woman to most of the people she befriends and discusses the implications of this and also how the experience affected her.