By Robert Webb
Don't Cry; Love recreation; Play tough; Drink Beer; do not speak about Feelings
But Robert Webb has been brooding about for your time now: are these principles truly any use? To anyone?
Looking again over his existence, from schoolboy crushes (on boys and girls) to studying the facility of constructing humans chortle (in the Cambridge Footlights with David Mitchell), and from wasting his cherished mom to changing into a husband and father, Robert Webb considers the absurd expectancies boys and males have thrust upon them at each degree of life.
Hilarious and heartbreaking, How to not Be a Boy explores the relationships that made Robert who he's as a guy, the teachings we examine as little kids, and the certainty that usually you are not the Luke Skywalker of your lifestyles - you are truly Darth Vader.
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