Description |
163 pages ; 20 cm |
Note |
"Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of The Random House Group Limited, London, in 2011"--T.p. verso. |
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"This is a Borzoi book." |
Summary |
This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about until his oldest friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all of this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider various things, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and his place in the world. |
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Follows a middle-aged man as he reflects on a past he thought was behind him, until he is presented with a legacy that forces him to reconsider different decisions, and to revise his place in the world. |
Awards |
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2011 |
Subject |
Middle-aged men -- Fiction.
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Middle-aged men. |
Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Subject |
Life change events -- Fiction.
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Life change events. |
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Male friendship -- Fiction.
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Male friendship. |
Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Subject |
Men's friendships. |
ISBN |
9780307957122 Cloth |
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0307957128 Cloth |
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