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2) Babbitt
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Series
Language
English
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Describes the life of an aggressive, prosperous realtor, reflecting an image of middle-class America.
3) Lolita
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Humbert, a divorced British professor, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte, whom he marries in order that he might pursue her 14-year-old daughter, Lolita.
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Language
English
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Description
In his eighth deliciously funny novel, Clyde Edgerton introduces us to the irrepressible Lil Olive, who's recently arrived at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall. Lil longs to be back in her own apartment, and since her driver's license doesn't expire until her ninety-seventh birthday, she also longs to get back behind the wheel of her sporty '89 Olds. To pass the time until independence, Lil strikes up some new friendships....
Author
Language
English
Description
"As he pushes fifty, painter and petty thief Oliver Otway Orme reflects on his life, trying to uncover the answer to how and why things have turned out as they have, excavating memories of family, of places he has called home, and of the way he has apprehended the world around him"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Richard Novak is a modern-day Everyman, a middle-aged divorcé trading stocks out of his home, who lives is emotional isolation. A medical emergency and the discovery of an expanding sinkhole outside his house conspire to hurl him back into the world and new relationships. The promised land of Los Angeles is also very much a character in this novel about compassion, transformation, and taking chances.
13) Herzog
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption.
14) A serious man
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
One ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life, His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith, family,...
15) Honeymoon
Author
Publisher
David R. Godine
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Jean B., the narrator of Patrick Modiano's Honeymoon, is submerged in a world where day and night, past and present, have no demarcations. Having spent his adult life making documentary films about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career, and takes what seems to be a journey to nowhere. He pretends to fly to Rio to make another film, but instead returns to his own Parisian suburb to spend his solitary days recounting or...
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Language
English
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Description
"Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances--in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a breath...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Explores the unique bonds of male friendship among three men experiencing the changes and challenges of mid-life. They have been best friends since college but now, in their 40s, are navigating through the second act of their lives.
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