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

BN ID:	2940154536001
Publisher:	Babylon Books
Publication date:	10/23/2017
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	356,965
File size:	520 KB

About the Author

William Bernhardt is the bestselling author of more than forty books, including the blockbuster Ben Kincaid series, the historical novel Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness, currently being adapted into a miniseries, two books of poetry (The White Bird, The Ocean’s Edge), and a series of books on fiction writing. 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 monthly Red Sneaker Writers Newsletter reaches over twenty thousand people, and the Red Sneakers phone app reaches many more. He 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 his novels, he has written plays, a musical (book and music), humor, nonfiction, children books, biography, poetry, and puzzles. OSU named him “Oklahoma’s Renaissance Man,” noting that in addition to writing novels, he can “write a sonnet, play a sonata, plant a garden, try a lawsuit, teach a class, cook a gourmet meal, prepare homemade ice cream, beat you at Scrabble, and work the New York Times crossword in under five minutes.”

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