Product Description

It may be every teacher's secret fantasy to have a quickie with their beloved in the staff common room during parents' evening, but having the governors walking in and interrupting is not normally part of the equation (unless you're really kinky). When this happens to Charlie, he rapidly finds himself without job and fiancee. A disaster...or a new beginning? Charlie plays the field - and the field wins. Retreating to lick his wounds he returns to his biology textbooks and considers the nature of mating - why do we do the things we do. Darwin, Dawkins and the London Zoo gorillas all provide inspiration. And after some thought, he begins to implement an entirely new set of courtship rules.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #449311 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

Tony Parsons, author of Man & Boy
The funniest debut novel since The Rachel Papers.

Emlyn Rees, co-author of Come Together
A smart, stylish and highly enjoyable debut, peppered with searing observations and irreverent wit.

Tony Parsons, author of Man & Boy
"T-Shirt & Genes" is the funniest debut novel since The Rachel Papers.. .the first blue-chip young novelist of the twenty-first century. Catch him if you can!

Customer Reviews

Not really worth the effort
I really struggled to become interested in this book as I found the main character completely unsympathetic and the humour practically non-existent. I managed to reach the (disappointing, to me) end, having kept my interest in life going by reading two other novels during this painful process.

Quite Simply Excellent!!!
Having only just made time for myself, I decided to start reading in the evenings again, rather than watch consitantly disappointing programs on TV.

I was recommended this book by one of my best friends and found it outstanding. I could not put it down and found myself relating to the main character.

This book is Extremely entertaining, with a wealth of brilliant one liners, that literally made me laugh out loud on several occaisons, and a excellent twist at the end!

The only negative comment I have about this book is that it got me in trouble with the other half several times as I was nose deep in the book, during moments when I should have been listening!

I highly recommend this book!

bio-fidelity
T-Shirt and Genes runs over some very familiar ground, and here is little to diferentiate this book from the hordes of blokey, mid life crisis, lose girlfriend, analyse life, get girlfriend back books that have come before.
the angle here as much, as it exists, is that the protaganist is a biology teacher and this justifies lengthy dialogues giving us the biological outlook on human relationships, unfortunately it all a bit flat and feels a bit forced.
Very predictable and derivative, with lots of large holes an unemployed penniless teacher could drive his rented porsche through.