Nude Men

Nude Men
Author(s)	Amanda Filipacchi
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Novel
Publisher	Viking
Publication date	1993
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	288pp
ISBN	0-670-84785-2
OCLC Number	26672255
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Classification	PS3556.I428 N83 1993
Followed by	Vapor

Nude Men is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Amanda Filipacchi. It was written when she was twenty-two years old as her thesis for Columbia University's graduate creative writing program. It was published by Viking in hardback and by Penguin in paperback, and was translated into 13 languages. It became a number-one bestseller in Belgium and was taught in some high schools in Holland.

The French filmmaker Louis Malle praised it on its back cover with the quote: "Nude Men is everything you don't expect it to be--hilarious, full of plot surprises, and completely original."

The novel received mostly glowing reviews in the United States and abroad, and has had a cult following since its publication. Critics have often cited its originality, inventiveness, and humor.

Excerpts of Nude Men have been anthologized in:

• The Best American Humor 1994 (published by Simon & Schuster 1994)

• Voices of the Xiled (published by Doubleday 1994)

• The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing In Modern Fiction (published by Berkley Books 2000)

• Women's Wicked Wisdom (Chicago Review Press 2004)

Plot summary

Nude Men is about a twenty-nine-year-old man who is sexually pursued by a precocious eleven-year-old girl. The novel explores his horror at his own attraction and recounts his efforts at resisting her advances.