An available man : a novel / Hilma Wolitzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolitzer, Hilma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Widowers--Fiction.

Widowers.

Older people--Fiction.

Older people.

Genre:

Fiction.

Romance fiction.

Love stories.

Physical Description:

285 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Ballantine Books, [2012]

Summary:

When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while well-meaning friends try to set him up at dinner parties. Even an attractive married neighbor offers herself to him. The problem is that Edward doesn't feel available. He's still mourning his beloved wife, Bee, and prefers solitude and the familiar routine of work, gardening, and bird-watching. But then his stepchildren surprise him by placing a personal ad in The New York Review of Books on his behalf."--Provided by publisher. flood in, and Edward is torn between his loyalty to Bee's

ISBN:

9780345527547

0345527542

9780345527561

0345527569

OCLC:

721886919