- Adult children of aging parents, World War, 1914-1918, Motherless families, Fathers and sons
Harry Silver has it all: a beautiful wife, a wonderful son and a great job in the media--but in one night he throws it all away.Just yesterday Harry gave himself a shiny red sports car for his thirtieth birthday.
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Classical in form, spare, contemporary and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Tony Parsons
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 353
- Publisher
- Scribner Paperback Fiction, Sourcebooks, Inc., Simon & Schuster Audio
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781841971469
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“It's a boy, it's a boy!”
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