The Last Resort
a novel
by Alison Lurie
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Like a loyal Victorian wife, Jenny has devoted her life to her much older husband, the famous writer and naturalist Wilkie Walker, bringing up their children and researching and editing his best-selling books. But this year, as winter approaches, Wilkie is increasingly depressed and withdrawn. At her wit's end, Jenny persuades him to visit Key West, the Last Resort. Within weeks of their arrival Jenny not only has a part-time job but is becoming involved with assorted local characters, including Gerry, an ex-beatnik poet, and Lee, the dramatically attractive manager of a women-only guesthouse. Wilkie, meanwhile, is planning his own "accidental" death by drowning--a task that turns out to be more difficult than he thought--and trying to avoid the attentions of a breathless young female fan.
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Aged men, Fiction, Friendship, Friendship in fiction, Married people, Married people in fiction, Older men, Older men in fiction, Psychology, Suicidal behavior, Suicidal behavior in fiction, Man-woman relationships, Key west (fla.), fiction, Friendship, fiction, Fiction, sagas, Fiction, general, Large type booksPlaces
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The Last Resort: a novel
1998, Thorndike Press
Hardcover
in English
- Large print ed.
0786216425 9780786216420
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