middle-aged men

"Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances--in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a breath of fresh air. Unhesitatingly, he marries her, and they have a relatively happy, unremarkable marriage. But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothy's unexpected appearances from the dead help him to live in the moment and to find some peace. Gradually he discovers, as he works in the family's vanity-publishing business, turning out titles that presume to guide beginners through the trials of life, that maybe for this beginner there is a way of saying goodbye. A beautiful, subtle exploration of loss and recovery, pierced throughout with Anne Tyler's humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles"--.

Moses Herzog engages in frantic letter-writing, trying to survive private disasters and those of modern civilization.

Divorced and retired, Tony Webster reconsiders his life and his place in the world after his childhood friends return and he is presented with a mysterious legacy.

Presents Jewish author Ir?ne N?mirovsky's 1941 novel in which Silvio returns to Burgundy as a middle-aged man after leaving years earlier to sow his wild oats, and begins to regret the loss of his passionate youth when the wedding of his favorite young cousin sparks memories and revelations of love, liaisons, and "fire in the blood.".

Golden Richards, a polygamist Mormon with four wives and twenty-eight children, is building a brothel in Nevada, telling his wives it is a senior center; but his desire for a young woman on the construction site, the increasing burden of his large family, and his son's sinister plot against him contributes to his ever-increasing anxiety.

Presents Vladimir Nabokov's novel about a thirty-seven-year-old literary scholar who becomes obsessed with a twelve-year-old girl; and provides explanatory notes and an extensive introduction.

George Hall is ready to settle down to a comfortable retirement, until his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces she is marrying someone George disapproves of, and George is diagnosed with a devastating illness.