The Master of Happy Endings

The Master of Happy Endings
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Publisher : Dundurn.com
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9780887628160
ISBN-13 : 0887628168
Rating : 4/5 (168 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Master of Happy Endings by : Jack Hodgins

Download or read book The Master of Happy Endings written by Jack Hodgins and published by Dundurn.com. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Master of Happy Endings is a powerful new novel about memory, belonging, helping others, and the vagaries of the human heart. It is also a compelling story about how a man in his late seventies manages to conjure one more great adventure for himself. Axel Thorstad lives in a shack on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia. Once a popular school teacher and thespian who touched the lives of hundreds of his students, he now lives in retirement and mourns the recent death of his wife. But even this stoical giant of a 77-year-old finds the isolation too much. He begins to run want ads in newspapers offering his services as a tutor, and meets the indomitable Mrs. Montana. She hires Axel to coach her precocious teenage-TV-actor son Travis for his school exams while he shoots a new episode in Hollywood. Life in L.A. is far removed from his isolated life in rural B.C., and soon Thorstad finds himself caught up in the drama of his young student’s life, and the return of an old flame. Set amidst the fleshpots, sound-stages and dining rooms of L.A., this engaging novel of lives and loves lost and found also gestures to the courage one needs in the face of the vulnerabilities of older age that all too soon beset.


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