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Loading... How to Talk to a Widower (2007)by Jonathan Tropper
None. Reiterating everyone else´s comments, but this read like a screenplay which had moments of brilliance, but I ended up skimming a whole lot. It just didn´t live up to the hype or the promise of the first chapter. (  ) thiscatsabroad | Apr 5, 2013 |  Screenplay turned into book, anyone? (  )1  olevia | Apr 5, 2013 | Touching and funny as hell. Tropper's a great writer and I can't wait to check out more of his books. (  ) cait815 | Apr 1, 2013 | Read like a screenplay or treatment, albeit a clever one. (  ) beckydj | Mar 30, 2013 | I’ve read books about men whose wives died in plane crashes before, but never one as funny as this. It has an exuberant style – so many laughs and such an easy read. I got through it in less than 24 hours. Elements of it were predictable, with a nod to the accepted formula of light novels, but in amongst the chick-litty stuff was a feeling that this author understands grief at a fundamental level. It’s very touchy feely. Women write like this all the time, but having it from the viewpoint of a man is interesting. From my 43 year old standpoint, some of the angst over the 10 year age gap between the protagonist and his late wife was perplexing. When she was described as being self conscious about her age, I wanted to shout : THIRTY SIX IS NO AGE AT ALL!!! Though of course I suspect the young would disagree. (  ) jayne_charles | Sep 9, 2012 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0385338910, Paperback)"Beautifully crafted", "Fantastically funny." "Compulsively readable." Jonathan Tropper has earned wild acclaim—-and comparisons to Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta—for his biting humor and insightful portrayals of families in crisis and men behaving badly. Now the acclaimed author of The Book of Joe and Everything Changes tackles love, lust, and lost in the suburbs—in a stunning novel that is by turns heartfelt and riotously funny.Doug Parker is a widower at age twenty-nine, and in his quiet suburban town, that makes him something of a celebrity—the object of sympathy, curiosity, and, in some cases, unbridled desire. But Doug has other things on his mind. First there's his sixteen year-old stepson, Russ: a once-sweet kid who now is getting into increasingly serious trouble on a daily basis. Then there are Doug's sisters: his bossy twin, Clair, who's just left he husband and moved in with Doug, determined to rouse him from his Grieving stupor. And Debbie, who's engaged to Doug's ex-best friend and manically determined to pull off the perfect wedding at any cost. Soon Doug's entire nuclear family is in his face. And when he starts dipping his toes into the shark-infested waters of the second-time around dating scene, it isn't long before his new life is spinning hopelessly out of control, cutting a harrowing and often hilarious swath of sexual missteps and escalating chaos across the suburban landscape. From the Hardcover edition. (retrieved from Amazon Sun, 06 Jan 2013 07:08:02 -0500) Twenty-nine-year-old widower Doug Parker finds his life spiraling out of control as he struggles to come to terms with grief, love, family, and suburbia while dealing with a bossy, pregnant twin sister who urges him to begin dating again, a younger sister planning her wedding, a mother dealing with her ailing husband, and a hostile teenage stepson.… (more) |
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