Present Times - Softcover

Present Times

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 272 pages. cover worn From âthe leading novelist of his generationâ (the Daily Telegraph )â"a story about marriage, family, and 1 manâs 2nd chanceAt age 47, for mer playwright Frank Attercliffe lives with 2 of his 5 children in a 4-bedroom a partment on Walton Lane on the outskirts of an English suburb. For the past 3 ye ars, his wife, Sheila, has been living with Maurice, a car dealer who owns a Rol ls-Royce, a Bentley, and a Jaguarâ"a man rumored to have killed 3 people in car accidents. Attercliffe cowrites a weekend football roundup for the local spo rts column, and after a match, he is introduced to the beautiful actress Phyllis Gardner at his favorite watering hole. That night, however, Sheila comes home, having left Maurice and given up her current lover, Gavin. She wants to move bac k to Walton Lane with the entire familyâ"but she wants Attercliffe to move o ut. With its cast of eccentric and endearing characters, including Attercliffeâ s loquacious fellow journalists, his alcoholic mentor, and the daughters who force him to live in the moment, Present Times is a novel about marriage, chang ing family values, and 2nd acts. Artikel-Nr. 2946ay

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