A Do Right Man
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
The handsome and successful Bobby Dallas has everything a good man could ever want—except a good woman.
Bobby Dallas, a budding radio talk-show host, has no skeletons or kids in the closet. All that's missing is a talented, sexy, smart Black woman by his side. And that should be easy, right?
But after a shattering breakup with his first love, Bobby wanders for years between women and jobs, unsure about marriage, family, economics, and his overall stability. Having achieved his dream of becoming a highly successful radio talk-show host, Bobby is a man with the best of intentions not only in his career, but also in love. He learns, though, that being a “do right man” in this society is far from easy.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hip-to-the-punch, Tyree's (Flyy Girl) feel-good third novel follows the trials and errors of low-octane gentle giant Bobby Dallas as he realizes his dream: to have his own radio show. After graduating from Howard University, Dallas finds tutelage under a variety of black radio men (many of whom live mainly through his wide-eyed enthusiasm) and pleasure in the company of a number of women with whom he enjoys fleeting affairs. It isn't until Dallas nerves himself to scrap the neoconservative slant of his radio show and reinvent himself as hip "Radioman" that his career and love life fall (magically) into place. The novel never questions this flip-flop: Tyree seems to share his hero's devil-may-care view of politics as mere fashion statement. Political questions aside, Dallas's sky-rocket ascent in radio beggars credulity. "What if everything doesn't go right?" he continues tiresomely to ask--as if the reader could possibly forget that Tyree is making sure that everything does go right. In fact, only Tyree's good humor and ear for dialogue keep this story from devolving into a fairy tale. FYI: Flyy Girl will be issued in Scribner paperback in November.
