Lucky Man, Lucky Woman
Nominating Lucky Man, Lucky Woman for the Pushcart Editors' Book Award, Rick Bass called it "one of the best novels I've read all yearan incredible story, not of high drama but rather of a marriage, of all things." Perry Lafond, approaching forty, knows he's had a decent life with his attractive, longtime wife, Marcia. But he's come to the point where he is not sure that he can continue on. In the meantime, there's the question of children. His wife, battling infertility, is obsessed with the idea of having a baby. Perry wants a child toomaybe. Suddenly, he can't keep his mind off other women. In his job as a probation officer he becomes recklessly infatuated with the pretty, beleaguered wife of a parolee who has a young child. Perry's own confusion endangers this child as well as a nephew under his care. Always unflinchingly honest, Jack Driscoll tracks a man's headlongand just possibly redemptiveleap into chaos.
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Lucky Man, Lucky Woman
Nominating Lucky Man, Lucky Woman for the Pushcart Editors' Book Award, Rick Bass called it "one of the best novels I've read all yearan incredible story, not of high drama but rather of a marriage, of all things." Perry Lafond, approaching forty, knows he's had a decent life with his attractive, longtime wife, Marcia. But he's come to the point where he is not sure that he can continue on. In the meantime, there's the question of children. His wife, battling infertility, is obsessed with the idea of having a baby. Perry wants a child toomaybe. Suddenly, he can't keep his mind off other women. In his job as a probation officer he becomes recklessly infatuated with the pretty, beleaguered wife of a parolee who has a young child. Perry's own confusion endangers this child as well as a nephew under his care. Always unflinchingly honest, Jack Driscoll tracks a man's headlongand just possibly redemptiveleap into chaos.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780393319453 |
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Publisher: | Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. |
Publication date: | 02/17/2000 |
Series: | Norton Paperback Fiction Series |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 274 |
Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d) |
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