John Salter
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
As Dennis Pratt reluctantly prepares for an anniversary trip to Mexico with his wife, Patricia, he becomes convinced that she is having an affair when she loses twenty pounds--an obsession that changes the whole course of their lives.
Author
Description
A woman tries to prepare her man-child
husband for their impending divorce. A middle-aged guy in the grip of codeine
and suburban ennui reinvents himself as an old west gunfighter. A heartbroken
father navigates life after his son is grievously injured. A writer returns
home after caring for his dying father, and worries that his own life's work
has been frivolous. After a series of improbable adventures in a single night,
a young man wonders if he...