AustLit

'Funny sometimes but always with a serious undertone, A New Era For Manny Youngman is a very different novel with something to say about male-female relationships.

'Manny Youngman has some unconventional ideas on feminism and the effects it has had on our society. He thinks there is an imbalance and men also need to find a new role for themselves to stop the growing spiral of domestic violence, broken marriages and male suicides.

'His ideas sound good in theory, but they are sorely put to the test when he is confronted with a teenage daughter he didn't know he had and her militant feminist mother who is going to jail.

'Manny's world is turned upside down, drawing his parents, his professional colleagues and his associates in the New Era Men's Support Alliance, as well as the friends of his new-found daughter and her mother, into a sequence of events over which it seems no-one has any control.' (Publication summary)