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  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: available man
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Wolitzer, Hilma.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Romance fiction.
  genre: Love stories.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2012
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 285 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: "In this tender and funny novel, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer mines the unpredictable fallout of suddenly becoming single later in life, and the chaos and joys of falling in love the second time around. 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. Soon the letters flood in, and Edward is torn between his loyalty to Bee's memory and his growing longing for connection. Gradually, reluctantly, he begins dating ("dating after death," as one correspondent puts it), and his encounters are variously startling, comical, and sad. Just when Edward thinks he has the game figured out, a chance meeting proves that love always arrives when it's least expected. With wit, warmth, and a keen understanding of the heart, An Available Man explores aspects of loneliness and togetherness, and the difference in the options open to men and women of a certain age. Most of all, the novel celebrates the endurance of love, and its thrilling capacity to bloom anew"--
  note: Hilma Wolitzer.
  subject:
    topic: Widowers
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Older people
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Contemporary Women
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Sagas
  subject:
    topic: Widowers
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Elderly
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PS3573.O563 A95 2012
  classification: 813/.54
  classification: FIC019000 FIC044000 FIC008000
  identifier: 0345527542 (acid-free paper)
  identifier: 9780345527547 (acid-free paper)
  identifier: 0345527569 (ebook)
  identifier: 9780345527561 (ebook)
  identifier: 2011037248
  identifier: 978-0-345-52754-7.jpg
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110923
    record change date: 20151202170035.0
    record identifier: in00002749773
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng