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Titel: A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living (Signed First Edition)
Verlag: Norton
Ver�ffentlichungsdatum: 2008
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0393066177
ISBN-13: 9780393066173
Bindung: Hardcover
Ausgabe: 1st Edition.
Zustand: New
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New
Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

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In the wake of his failed business and marriage, a bumbling Manhattan blueblood struggles with a lack of social finesse in his efforts to date, travel, and engage in gentleman's hobbies, until an eccentric woman challenges him to take a promising risk.

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Portrait of a well-heeled wimp. When we first middle-aged New Yorker has reached his nadir. He has run the family import-export business into the ground, and his trampy wife Rebecca has fishing club, the Fly Casters, and he has his tearful breakdown in front of his fellow out. Then Arthur dates a woman called Rixa who rules to sneak in strangers. The evening is a disaster; accident-prone Arthur causes a fire and bursts into tears as the club burns down. Park Avenue apartment and enough money to sustain a work-free lifestyle. Time to escape Manhattan. He takes up the reluctantly proffered invitation of an old school friend with a nice spread in the French Alps, but Prentice Ross is no more a friend now than his erstwhile fishing alcoholic who lands Arthur in trouble with the cops; lacking the guts to deck Ross, Arthur beats a hasty retreat to Switzerland. Instead of a plot Dahlie arranges a series of scenes that humiliate Arthur without granting him self-knowledge; the point being, presumably, family reunion on Nantucket he steals his only to have its loud alarm incriminate him, a moment of primitive farce. Farce is followed by wild improbability when ex-wife Rebecca, quite drunk, pressures Arthur into meaningless sex, leading him to hope for a reconciliation. Fat an exercise in schadenfreude that is not remotely funny.

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