Honeymooners

the long version

"Chuck Kinder's long-awaited magnum opus chronicles the misadventures of best friends Ralph Crawford and Jim Stark, two of the most promising writers of their day and the wives with whom they have spent the best years of their lives raising bad judgment to an art.". "With affection and self-savaging wit, Kinder captures the siren song of the writerly vocation in all its squalor and glory. Honeymooners is at once an homage to and a debunking of that mythical figure - the alcoholic, womanizing, swaggering male Author. It is also a comi-tragic evocation of a recent but storied era in American letters."--BOOK JACKET.