An available man a novel
When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seek...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ballantine Books,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while well-meaning friends try to set him up at dinner parties. Even an attractive married neighbor offers herself to him. The problem is that Edward doesn't feel available. He's still mourning his beloved wife, Bee, and prefers solitude and the familiar routine of work, gardening, and bird-watching. But then his stepchildren surprise him by placing a personal ad in The New York Review of Books on his behalf."--Provided by publisher. flood in, and Edward is torn between his loyalty to Bee's |
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| Physical Description: | 285 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780345527547 (hbk. : acid-free paper) 0345527542 (hbk. : acid-free paper) 9780345527561 (ebk.) 0345527569 (ebk.) |
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