EAN: 9780385545624

Bilder-Quelle: discount24.de - Sport-Freizeit

Beloved author Louis Begley returns to the monied halls of the Upper East Side with a sharp new comedy of manners. Divorced after decades of comfortable marriage retired journalist Hugo Gardner sets out to explore paths not travelled. After four decades of what he believes to be a happy healthy partnership Hugo Gardner's world is overturned when he learns that his wife Valerie is not only requesting a divorce but has left him for a younger more vital man. Hugo an octogenarian political writer and retired journalist for Time must rethink the way he's lived and reassess how he'd like to spend his remaining years. Reconsidering past relationships in his mind with years of distance Hugo begins to see things in a new light: Valerie whose youth and ambition eventually came between them his children whose support might be more financially than emotionally motivated and his friends who like him are rapidly aging before his very eyes. With an ominous oncologist's report hanging over his head Hugo decides to get away for a bit to a conference in Paris. There a new romance blooms and Hugo finds himself wondering if growing old in Paris might be the perfect antidote to the drama he left behind in New York. Unflinching witty and urbane as ever Louis Begley delivers a spot-on satire of the world of New York's aging elite and uncovers the unexpected delights a late-in-life change can offer.

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