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Middle-aged men

  • The Sirena quest
    Author:
    Kahn, Michael A.
    Summary:

    The New York Times Sunday Magazine piece famously opened: “She has pouting lips and high round breasts. Thousands of men have dreamt of her. Hundreds have chased after her. Two have died in pursuit. Her name is Sirena, she weighs 193...
  • The Sense of an Ending
    Author:
    Barnes, Julian
    Summary:

    Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less 6th form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than...
  • The sea
    Author:
    Banville, John
    Summary:

    When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long...
  • The lonely polygamist
    Author:
    Udall, Brady
    Summary:

    This novel tells of Golden Richards, a man who, despite having four wives and 28 children, hasn't quite found fulfillment in life. And even after he falls in love again and takes a mistress, life continues to fall short of...
  • The girl before, the girl after
    Author:
    Hébert, Louis-Philippe
    Summary:

    The Girl Before, the Girl After is the story of a man who would rather remain anonymous. The boutique where used to work has been condemned, and so has the house where he rented a room, torn down to make way for a luxury hotel. His...
  • The Full Ridiculous
    Author:
    Lamprell, Mark
    Summary:

    A funny, compelling novel about love, family, and the precarious business of being a man.Michael O’Dell is hit by a car. When he doesn’t die, he is surprised and pleased. But he can’t seem to move from the crash position. In fact, the...
  • The franchise babe
    Author:
    Jenkins, Dan.
    Summary:

    Fortysomething sportswriter Jack Brannon is bored to tears with the men's tour. So he decides to check out Ginger Clayton, the hot, new franchise babe on the ladies' links. Things get interesting in a hurry, as it becomes...
  • Solar : a novel
    Author:
    McEwan, Ian.
    Summary:

    When Nobel prize-winning physicist Michael Beard's personal and professional lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise of an invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for...
  • Seize the day
    Author:
    Bellow, Saul
    Summary:

    Tommy Wilhelm is separated from his family, at odds with his father, failed in his career, and in a financial mess. One climactic day, while he reviews his past mistakes, a mysterious con man grants him a moment of truth and...
  • Schmidt delivered
    Author:
    Begley, Louis
    Summary:

    Albert Schmidt, proud traditional gentleman and lawyer of the old school, was almost down for the count. His beloved wife was dead, he had stumbled into early retirement, and relations with his cherished and perfectly bred daughter...
  • My year of running dangerously
    Author:
    Foreman, Tom.
    Summary:

    As a journalist whose career spans three decades, CNN correspondent Tom Foreman has reported from the heart of war zones, riots, and natural disasters. He has interviewed serial killers and been in the line of fire. But the most...
  • Lunch at the Piccadilly
    Author:
    Edgerton, Clyde
    Summary:

    Lil Olive, the leader of a group of feisty elderly women, decides that she is restless at the Rosehaven nursing home. Lil and her friends need some excitement in their dull lives. So, the group of women steal a car and hit the road in...
  • La Rose morte
    Author:
    Rigelhof, Terry, Steenhout, Ivan
    Summary:

    Après des années passées à jouer de la basse dans un groupe rock et à côtoyer les motards criminels de La Rose morte, Hoffer s’est lancé dans la production de vidéoclips. Il a vendu aux Enfants du Soleil le terrain adjacent à ses...
  • Indian Summer
    Author:
    HOWELLS, William Dean
    Summary:

    In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of the year, although the plot actually spans several seasons. The Indian summer aspect applies to...
  • Herzog
    Author:
    Bellow, Saul
    Summary:

    This National Book Award winning novel traces five days in the life of a man whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both his own life and the complexity of modern life.
  • Doctor Sleep
    Author:
    King, Stephen
    Summary:

    After decades as an itinerant alcoholic, middle-aged Dan Torrance uses his remnant powers to assist the dying before coming to the aid of a twelve-year-old girl being tortured by a tribe of murderous paranormals.
  • Close to Hugh
    Author:
    Endicott, Marina
    Summary:

    As the week opens, 50-something Hugh Argylle, owner of the Argylle Art Gallery, has a jarring fall from a ladder - a fall that leaves him with a fractured off-kilter vision of his own life and the lives of his friends, who are going...
  • Babbitt
    Author:
    Lewis, Sinclair
    Summary:

    George Babbitt is a successful realtor and proud member of the Booster’s club, but his conventional life has left him unsatisfied. Babbitt abandons his old life for one of bohemian values but slowly realizes that even rebellion isn’t...
  • About Schmidt
    Author:
    Begley, Louis
    Summary:

    Old-school lawyer Albert Schmidt has spent years climbing the ladder of success. But now, at what should be the pinnacle of his career, he is widowed, forcibly retired and harbors mixed feelings about his daughter's impending...
  • A house for Mr. Biswas
    Author:
    Naipaul, V. S.
    Summary:

    Trinidad. Mr. Mohun Biswas, a tenderhearted fellow with a thirst for books, struggles for independence from his wife's domineering family.
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