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The family man / Elinor Lipman

By:

Lipman, Elinor

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2009.Description: 305 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780618644667

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Domestic fiction

DDC classification:

FIC LIP

LOC classification:

PS3562.I577 F36 2009

Summary: 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC LIP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Expurgado/No disponible		002884

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.

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