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- PublisherHarperAvenue
- Publication date2016
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. New - May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. - From The Two-Time Winner Of The Stephen Leacock Medal For Humour, And Author Of The Best Laid Plans, Comes A New Story About A Man Tormented By An Event From His Youth, And The Journey He Finds Himself On To Heal And To Learn Who He Is. Few People Know The Real Alex Macaskill. Most Of The World Sees A Painfully And Chronically Shy Software Engineer In His Mid-20S, Soft-Spoken, A Bit Of A Loner, And Someone Easy To Escape Notice Wherever Possible?And That'S Just The Way Alex Wants It. Because No Matter How Many Years Have Passed, The Incident Known Only As "Gabriel" In The Macaskill Family Is Something That Still Haunts Him. But When His Mother, One Of The Only People In The World Who Alex Felt Comfortable As Himself Around, Dies After A Long Illness, He Suddenly Has No Choice But To Face The Very Thing That He'S Been Avoiding Since That Night In High School. In An Instant, Alex Finds Himself Trying To Piece Together The Mystery Of His Identity, And On A Search For Parts Of His Family He Never Knew Existed?A Search That Takes Him From Ottawa To London To Moscow, Encountering Along The Way The Kgb, Painful Memories From His Past, And Even The 1972 Russian Hockey Team?A Search That Ultimately Helps Alex Discover Himself. With His Trademark Wit And Captivating Storytelling, Terry Fallis Has Written A Novel Unlike Any Of His Others. One Brother Shy Is At Once Poignant And Humorous, Heartbreaking And Heartwarming, And Readers Will Not Soon Forget Alex Macaskill. Seller Inventory # 004463
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. " A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives. Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs joint trust fund, The Nest, which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nests value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems. Melody, a wife and mother in an upscale suburb, has an unwieldy mortgage and looming college tuition for her twin teenage daughters. Jack, an antiques dealer, has secretly borrowed against the beach cottage he shares with his husband, Walker, to keep his store open. And Bea, a once-promising short-story writer, just cant seem to finish her overdue novel. Can Leo rescue his siblings and, by extension, the people they love? Or will everyone need to reimagine the future theyve envisioned? Brought together as never before, Leo, Melody, Jack, and Beatrice must grapple with old resentments, present-day truths, and the significant emotional and financial toll of the accident, as well as finally acknowledge the choices they have made in their own lives. This is a story about the power of family, the possibilities of friendship, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. In this tender, entertaining, and deftly written debut, Sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life to illuminate what money does to relationships, what happens to our ambitions over the course of time, and the fraught yet unbreakable ties we share with those we love.". Seller Inventory # 013164
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. BRAND NEW-GIFT QUALITY- " A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives. Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs joint trust fund, The Nest, which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nests value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems. Melody, a wife and mother in an upscale suburb, has an unwieldy mortgage and looming college tuition for her twin teenage daughters. Jack, an antiques dealer, has secretly borrowed against the beach cottage he shares with his husband, Walker, to keep his store open. And Bea, a once-promising short-story writer, just cant seem to finish her overdue novel. Can Leo rescue his siblings and, by extension, the people they love? Or will everyone need to reimagine the future theyve envisioned? Brought together as never before, Leo, Melody, Jack, and Beatrice must grapple with old resentments, present-day truths, and the significant emotional and financial toll of the accident, as well as finally acknowledge the choices they have made in their own lives. This is a story about the power of family, the possibilities of friendship, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. In this tender, entertaining, and deftly written debut, Sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life to illuminate what money does to relationships, what happens to our ambitions over the course of time, and the fraught yet unbreakable ties we share with those we love.". Seller Inventory # 014867
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