The Code of Buddyhood

by William Bernhardt

Overview

Bobby Beresford and Mark Szasz, the self-appointed "Knights Templar of the Code of Buddyhood," are undergraduates at the University of Oklahoma in 1979. There couldn't be a more unlikely pair of best friends. Bobby's cautious, social ineptitude and romantic fumblings offset Mark's flamboyant, devil-may-care attitude, his irrepressible pranks, and his prowess with shapely coeds. But the cardinal rule of the Code--"A buddy does not move in on another buddy's girl"--requires Bobby to watch quietly as Mark makes time with Annie, the woman of Bobby's dreams. Mark and Bobby's college exploits include crashing frat parties, arranging elaborate double dates (that, at least for Bobby, go disastrously and hilariously wrong), and shuttling a decomposing corpse across campus. But inevitably, the girl they both love becomes a wedge that divides the buddies not only during their college days, but well into the future...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780989378932
Publisher:	Babylon Books
Publication date:	11/16/2013
Pages:	338
Sales rank:	680,417
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

William Bernhardt is the bestselling author of more than thirty books, including the blockbuster Ben Kincaid series of novels. In addition, Bernhardt founded the Red Sneaker Writing Center in 2005, hosting writing workshops and small-group seminars and becoming one of the most in-demand writing instructors in the nation. His programs have educated many authors now published at major New York houses. He holds a Masters Degree in English Literature and is the only writer to have received the Southern Writers Guild's Gold Medal Award, the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award (University of Pennsylvania) and the H. Louise Cobb Distinguished Author Award (Oklahoma State), which is given "in recognition of an outstanding body of work that has profoundly influenced the way in which we understand ourselves and American society at large." In addition to the novels, he has written plays, a musical (book and music), humor, nonfiction books, children books, biography, poetry, and crossword puzzles. He is a member of the Author's Guild, PEN International and the American Academy of Poets.

Editorial Reviews

The Code of Buddyhood will take you back to your schooldays and remind you of friendships, growing up, growing apart and lost loves....It's a book everybody will enjoy. Don't miss it.

Rave Reviews

The Code of Buddyhood is an entertaining and ultimately sobering novel....Bernhardt's deceptively simple prose style and ironic sense of humor make the novel effortless to read.

Tulsa World

Bernhardt has a penchant for placing his characters in amusing, mischievous predicaments, and he'll keep you giggling throughout each of their pranks.

West Coast Review of Books

The Code of Buddyhood is...a finely crafted page-turner that will keep you riveted to your seat until the last page is turned....It is about the painful struggle of discovering the self.

The Oklahoma Daily