Amateur Barbarians - A Novel (Paperback)

Acclaimed, award-winning novelist Robert Cohen delivers a bold, provocative exploration of the panic of midlife, follow- ing two men plateaued on either side of their forties and the unexpected consequences of changing course.

Teddy Hastings is a New England middle school principal desperate for transcendence. Unmoored by his brother's death and a health scare of his own, he tries to broaden his ordinary life and winds up unemployed and on the wrong side of the law. Meanwhile, Oren Pierce, a per- petual grad student from New York, abandons, somewhat to his own surprise, his search for the extraordinary and begins settling into the humble existence that Teddy seeks to escape. What comforts Oren alarms Teddy, and their paths overlap as Teddy's quest for the unknown and unfamiliar experience takes him on a rash trip to Africa, leaving Oren to assume the trappings of his life, including Teddy's wife Gail.

"Amateur Barbarians "showcases a writer at the peak of his""powers, tracing domestic ambivalence, the comic perils of introspection and desire, and the terror of an unlived life with Cohen's signature wit and uncanny perception, proving yet again why he was touted by "The New York Times Book Review" as the "heir to Saul Bellow and Philip Roth."

General

Imprint:	Scribner
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	March 2013
Authors:	Robert Cohen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	416
ISBN-13:	978-1-4391-8268-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-4391-8268-X
Barcode:	9781439182680

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