An Available Man
A Novel
New York : Ballantine Books, [2012]
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First edition.
Description: 1 online resource (285 pages)
When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while well-meaning friends try to set him up at dinner parties. Even an attractive married neighbor offers herself to him. The problem is that Edward doesn't feel available. He's still mourning his beloved wife, Bee, and prefers solitude and the familiar routine of work, gardening, and bird-watching. But then his stepchildren surprise him by placing a personal ad in The New York Review of Books on his behalf."--Provided by publisher. flood in, and Edward is torn between his loyalty to Bee's
Subjects:
Widowers -- Fiction.
Older people -- Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Contemporary Women.
FICTION / Sagas.
Widowers -- Fiction.
Older people -- Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Contemporary Women.
FICTION / Sagas.
ISBN:
9780345527561
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Ebook
Electronic resource.
Description based on print version record.
Description based on print version record.