The actor and author Paul Rudnick's good-natured wit has reverberated across the Broadway stage, the cinema, television, and now, the book world.

In this funny comic novel, he presents a sly lampoon of the Manhattan club scene in the 1980s through the lens of the quintessential Rudnick character, Guy Huber. Social Disease tells of "the travails of (the) protagonist, a trust-funded trendoid named Guy, his ditzy clubland bride Venice, and their transvestite housekeeper, Licky Barnes, are very perky indeed. . . . about the three major issues of our time: sex, hair, and the telephone" (Paul Rudnick, New York Magazine).