That good night / Richard Probert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Probert, Richard Ezra, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older men--Fiction.

Older men.

Sailing--Fiction.

Sailing.

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Beaufort Books, [2016]

Summary:

Condemned to spend his "Golden Years" cooped up in Sunset Nursing Home, 84-year-old Charlie Lambert refuses this ending for himself. With the help of an old sailing buddy living in Maine, Charlie plans to go AWOL permanently, buy a boat, and hit the high seas, where he will live out the remainder of his life on his own terms. Nothing ever goes quite as planned, though, and as Charlie heads towards Maine on a 46-foot sailboat, he strikes up an unexpected romance with Abigail, a woman decades his junior. Things take a darker turn, though, when he discovers a former FBI agent-turned-insurance-investigator hot on his trail. Agent Roberts has been hired to find out what happened to Charlie: bring him back if he's alive, or determine he's dead so his estranged sons can collect on his life insurance policy. Roberts doesn't expect a fight from the old man, but that's just what he gets. Because Charlie has no intention of ever returning to Sunset, whether in handcuffs or a pine box. Funny, heart-warming, and heart-breaking, That Good Night tells the story of a man who, rather than rail against going "gentle into that good night," as Dylan Thomas wrote, instead wishes to simply sail into a sunset of his own choosing.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Prologue

Introduction

Friday, June 22

Saturday, June 23

Sunday, June 24

Monday, June 25

Tuesday, June 26

Wednesday, June 27

Thursday, June 28

Friday, June 29

Saturday, June 30

Sunday, July 1

Private Investigator

Monday, July 2 and Tuesday, July 3

Wednesday, July 4

Thursday, July 5

Friday, July 6

Saturday, July 7

Sunday, July 8

Monday, July 9

Tuesday, July 10

Wednesday, July 11

Thursday, July 12 - Monday, July 16

Tuesday, July 17

Wednesday, July 18

Thursday, July 19

Friday, July 20

Saturday, July 21

Tuesday, July 24

Abigail's Interruption

Wednesday, July 25

Thursday, July 26

Friday, July 27

Friday, July 27 (Continued)

Saturday, July 28

Saturday, July 28 (Continued)

Sunday, July 29

Monday, July 30

Tuesday, July 31

Wednesday, August 1

Thursday, August 2

Friday, August 3

Saturday, August 4

Sunday, August 5

Monday, August 6 - Thursday, August 9

Friday, August 10

Postscript

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8253-0722-8

OCLC:

954463880