Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined--to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he committed, Sage feels he may...
Older men
- Author:Picoult, JodiSummary:
- Author:Stegner, WallaceSummary:
A retired literary agent revisits his journals from a trip he took to his mother's birthplace some years before. His memories reveal that he has been less of a mere spectator through life than he had thought.
- Author:LUDLUM, RobertSummary:
American investment banker Ben Hartman is on holidays in Switzerland when he meets a childhood friend - who promptly tries to kill him. But this is only the beginning.
- Author:Groen, HendrikSummary:
Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried anytime soon. Instead, he sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam.
- Author:BRINK, AndreSummary:
Ruben Oliver's life is coming apart. He is obliged to take early retirement as a librarian due to the new political realities of South Africa. His wife dead, one son in Australia, the other emigrating, the only constants are his...
- Author:Jacobson, HowardSummary:
- Author:Poliquin, DanielSummary:
"Facing the dwindling years of his life, an old man waits for his turn on the auction block, hoping to be sold to a family as decent as the one he is leaving. It is not the first time he has been here, and it may not be the last. Mute...
- Author:Begley, LouisSummary:
Schmidt is a self-described maverick WASP attorney who now heads a foundation established by his magnanimous billionaire Jewish Egyptian friend, Mike Mansour. At 78, Schmidt is widowed, vigorous, shrewd yet romantic, with a gargantuan...
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
Fast approaching 70, Duane Moore is adjusting to the loneliness of retirement. Then things get stirred up when a billionaire heiress moves to the area and opens a rhinoceros sanctuary.
- Author:Balzac, Honoré deSummary:
At the shabby boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, petty Madame Vauquer and her tenants wonder at the plight of the aging resident Goriot. Once a well-heeled merchant, Goriot was--at first--afforded special treatment from...
- Author:Grubisic, Brett JosefSummary:
Meet Marcus O, a man who's feeling older but not much wiser as he sets jaded eyes on that last vigorous stretch before the dreaded sunset years. With the approach of the terminal semester of a long-winded career, he's...
- Author:Wright, Richard B.Summary:
James Hillyer, a retired university professor whose life was evocatively described in Wright's novel October, is now barely existing after the death of his beloved daughter in her forties. On a whim, he tries to locate the woman he fell...
- Author:Healy, DermotSummary:
- Author:Guay-Poliquin, ChristianSummary:
Dans une véranda cousue de courants d’air, en retrait d’un village sans électricité, s’organise la vie de Matthias et d’un homme accidenté qui lui a été confié juste avant l’hiver. Telle a été l’entente : le vieil homme assurera la...
- Author:Miller, K. D.Summary:
Linked short stories based on the paintings of Alex Colville and haunted by supernatural elements.
- Author:Joyce, JamesSummary:
- Author:MacLeod, HilarySummary:
For the first time in thirty years, all the signs have returned to the waters off The Shores. Signs of a presumed gone, possibly legendary giant cod. A photograph is the only evidence the big one ever existed. The Shores's...
- Author:Egan, JenniferSummary:
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose...
- Author:Jacobson, HowardSummary:
Julian Treslove, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood and, as they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity, anti-Semitism, women, love, and the...