Nate takes an unexpected and unwanted trip with his estranged father, only to undergo changes in his perceptions of both himself and his dad, whose participation in the Vietnam War changed him forever.
Bill Armitage walked along the beach, staring out at Puget Sound. He loved taking this walk in the morning, and he'd been doing it nearly every day at six for over a month. He always scanned the Sound for the sight of black dorsal fins, ...
Lose those girly cocktails and start drinking like a real man—a real old man! These Old Man Drinks are guaranteed to put hair on that scrawny baby’s bottom you call a chest.
It also makes a great gift for that guy in your life who is a crotchety old man but will never believe one line in this book is about him!
Whether it's a Fourth of July in rural Maine, the opening game of the 2015 World Series, editorial exchanges with John Updike, a letter to a son, or his award-winning essay on aging, "This Old Man," what links the pieces is Angell's unique ...
It's time for the old man to get up, too. The night was icy and he's hungry. His name? He no longer knows ... This is the story of a person with no job, no family, no home - nobody, who can't even remember his name.
Two tales record the beautiful and tender relationship between a boy and his remarkable grandfather and how the memories of his grandfather stir a young man as he roams the wilderness
Quill grew up. But things didn't go as planned. Decades have passed, and Peter is haunted by tragedy. Down and out, Quill's existence means nothing...until the former GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY drag Peter out of his funk for one last mission!
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A Very Old Man collects five linked stories, parts of an unfinished novel that the great Triestine Italo Svevo wrote at the end of his life, after the international success of Zeno’s Conscience in 1923.