by TonyParsons (Author)
A fabulously engaging and exciting novel about a man who has to learn about life and love the hard way. Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. And in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away. Man and Boy is the story of how he comes to terms with his life and achieves a degree of self-respect, bringing up his son alone and, gradually, learning what words like love and family really mean. It is very well written, pacy, funny, and heart-breakingly moving.
Format: Special Edition
Pages: 368
Edition: 20th Anniversary edition
Publisher: Harper
Published: 25 Jul 2019
ISBN 10: 0006512135
ISBN 13: 9780006512134
Book Overview: A fabulously engaging and exciting novel about a man who has to learn about life and love the hard way. Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. And in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away. Man and Boy is the story of how he comes to terms with his life and achieves a degree of self-respect, bringing up his son alone and, gradually, learning what words like love and family really mean. It is very well written, pacy, funny, and heart-breakingly moving. / Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller, now over 1.2 million copies sold / Whitakers Gold Award-winning paperback / An author who is highly visible in the media -- blanket coverage for latest hardcover, hugely favourable to the book / A book that hits all the topical notes about parenting and marriage. One that men will read with a toe-curling sense of recognition and women will read to find out what makes men tick! / The author himself brought up his son on his own -- lots of interesting publicity angles / Competition: Nick Hornby
Prizes: Winner of Butler & Tanner Book of the Year 2001 and British Book Awards: Butler & Tanner Book of the Year Award 2001 and Whitaker Gold Book Award 2001.
`Wistful, touching and funny, it looks back at the glory days of the family without losing hope for the future. In the end, it is a deeply touching book: a love letter to a son from his father, and to a father from his son'
Mail on Sunday
`One of the finest books published this year... Hilarious and tear-jerking in turns'
Express
`Parsons has written a sharp, witty and wise book straight from his heart. His characters are all nitty-gritty, bounce-off-the-page, real people; his dialogue is brilliant'
Daily Mail
`A touching novel... full of quiet tenderness, and written from the heart'
Independent
Tony Parsons is the author of Man and Boy , winner of the Book of the Year prize. His subsequent novels - One For My Baby, Man and Wife, The Family Way, Stories We Could Tell and My Favourite Wife - were all bestsellers. He lives in London.
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