middle aged men

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middle aged men

Felicia's journey

1999
A pregnant young woman leaves her small Irish town to search for her boyfriend in the English Midlands.

A spot of bother

a novel
2007
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.

The sense of an ending

2011
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.

Fire in the blood

2007
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.".

Saturday

2005
Henry Perowne, a London neurosurgeon, goes through his normal Saturday activities, including a weekly squash game, but his unease grows as he makes his way through the throngs of anti-war protesters clogging London's streets, until a minor car accident with the petulant Baxter begins a series of events that erupts into violence.

Herzog

1976
Moses Herzog, Ph.D., engages in frantic letter-writing, trying to survive private disasters and those of modern civilization.

Babbitt

1989
George Babbit is a middle class American living in an average Midwestern city, in this satire of middle class life.

Babbitt

2007
Tale of a coniving, prosperous real estate man who becomes totally corrupt.

Belinda

2000
Jeremy Walker, a handsome illustrator of children's books, meets Belinda and immediately falls in love with the young girl, but soon realizes that their forbidden passion may be his own undoing.

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