Beast of Love Paperback - 2006

FROM AWARD-WINNING WASHINGTON POST WRITER ALEC KLEIN "You're a drunk, you're a womanizer, you're lazy-" I raise an index finger. "A point of clarification," I note. "What?" "You forgot Godless." "And you can't take anything seriously," she steams. "Thank you," I say, tipping a hat that isn't there. And so it goes between Miles and Sunny, warring next-door neighbors in an uproarious comedy about the urban mating ritual. Miles, a public relations executive in Chicago, is a slothful Lothario who relishes his self-image as a dishonest, shallow and vain anti-hero. Sunny, though, forces him to reconsider all of that. Along the way, Miles concocts an elaborate PR scheme, ventures into the wilderness and finds himself attached to the leash of an unwanted mutt. There's only one way to extricate himself. Can he change, even if he doesn't mean to? Beast of Love is a tale about finding love - and finding grace. ALEC KLEIN is an award-winning journalist, playwright and author. His first book, Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner, was an acclaimed national bestseller that is being translated into Japanese, has been published in Chinese and was excerpted in Great Britain. His comedies have been performed in theaters in Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York and elsewhere. Klein, a staff writer for The Washington Post, has won numerous national journalism awards. He previously wrote for The Wall Street Journal, The Baltimore Sun and The Virginian-Pilot. Beast of Love is his first novel. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University, Klein teaches at Georgetown University and guest lectures throughout the country. He was born in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., and lives inWashington, D.C., with his wife, Julie-Ann.