The family man
Lipman, Elinor
The family man / Elinor Lipman - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2009. - 305 p. ; 22 cm.
A hysterical phone call from his ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend Henry Archer's well ordered life. They bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a lawyer, an old-fashioned man, gay, successful, lonely. Thalia is now twenty-nine, an actresshopeful, estranged from her newly widowed crackpot mother Denise, Henry's ex. Hoping it will lead to better things for her career, Thalia agrees to pose as the girlfriend of a former sitcom star and current horror-movie luminary who is down on his romantic luck. When Thalia and her complicated social life move into the basement of Henry's Upper West Side townhouse, she finds a champion in her long-lost father, and he finds new life and maybe even new love in the commotion.
9780618644667
2008046222
Gay lawyers----Fiction
Stepdaughters----Fiction
Fathers and daughters----Fiction
Upper East Side (New York, NY)----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PS3562.I577 / F36 2009
FIC LIP
The family man / Elinor Lipman - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2009. - 305 p. ; 22 cm.
A hysterical phone call from his ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend Henry Archer's well ordered life. They bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a lawyer, an old-fashioned man, gay, successful, lonely. Thalia is now twenty-nine, an actresshopeful, estranged from her newly widowed crackpot mother Denise, Henry's ex. Hoping it will lead to better things for her career, Thalia agrees to pose as the girlfriend of a former sitcom star and current horror-movie luminary who is down on his romantic luck. When Thalia and her complicated social life move into the basement of Henry's Upper West Side townhouse, she finds a champion in her long-lost father, and he finds new life and maybe even new love in the commotion.
9780618644667
2008046222
Gay lawyers----Fiction
Stepdaughters----Fiction
Fathers and daughters----Fiction
Upper East Side (New York, NY)----Fiction
Domestic fiction
PS3562.I577 / F36 2009
FIC LIP
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