![]() ![]() ![]() His longtime girlfriend, Hilly, works in fashion. George Gurley is a nightlife reporter in Manhattan. Still, when I found a free copy at a book swap last weekend, it seemed like a no-brainer. I remember when this book first came out, I thought it was right up my alley! But something put me off. Hilarious, thought-provoking, and compelling, George & Hilly reveals the uncensored, unselfconscious psyche of a man on the brink of matrimony. ![]() psychiatrist, obliging listener, and unwitting participant in George’s own journalistic project-a no-holds-barred portrait of intimacy taken from transcripts of the couple’s therapy sessions. George can be compared to a Carrie Bradshaw 2.0 that is, if Carrie were a hard drinking, ill-reputed man-about-town writing frankly about sex, love, marriage, and his own psychological baggage. George had witnessed New York husbands -frail, meek, ashamed, and henpecked, pushing double wide strollers as their battle-ax wives babbled on about “dinner with friends”-and it wasn’t for him.Įnter Dr. ![]() A funny and intimate portrait of a relationshipgleaned from the author and his fianceé’s couple’s therapy sessions.Īfter roughly three-and-a-half years of dating his girlfriend Hilly, New York Observer nightlife and society reporter George Gurley decided that it was time to get married. ![]()
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