David Bergen

The Matter with Morris

Buch

When Morris Schutt, a prominent newspaper columnist, surveys his life over the past year, he sees disaster everywhere. His son has just been killed in Afghanistan, and his newspaper has put him on indefinite leave; his psychiatrist wife, Lucille, seems headed for the door; he is strongly attracted to Ursula, the wife of a dairy farmer from Minnesota; and his daughter appears to be having an affair with one of her professors. What is a thinking man to do but turn to Cicero and Plato and Socrates in search of the truth? Or better still, to call one of those discreet dating services in search of happiness? But happiness, as Morris discovers, is… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-58243-759-0
EAN: 9781582437590
Produktnummer: 11078305
Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.4 cm 336 g
Gewicht: 336

Über den Autor

David Bergen won the 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel The Time in Between. He is the winner of the 2009 Writers Trust Notable Author Award, two McNally Robinson Book of the Year Awards, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and the Carol Shields Book Award. He lives in Winnipeg, Canada.