The Widower

Author:   Ray Kluun ,  Shaun Whiteside
Publisher:   Pan Macmillan
Edition:   Unabridged edition
ISBN:  

9780330454353


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   06 June 2008
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Following his wife Carmen's funeral, chronicled so movingly in Love Life, Dan tries to pick up the pieces. He is now the sole parent of little Luna. But inevitably in his grief he goes right off the rails. His friends worry for him and for Luna, and Rose finds it difficult to reconnect with him. His hedonism becomes self-destructive and he deep down he knows it's better to have Luna stay with friends than for her to witness his decline. He sells his share of the business to his partner and goes ona drug-addled holiday to Ibiza, where he witnesses 9/11. His relationship with Rose is virtually over, though she can never quite bring herself to abandon him completely. Dan reaches rock bottom and realises he can't go on like this. His friends advise him to go on a long trip, taking Luna with him, and to try and take stock of his life. He decides to take Luna to Australia, via Bali and Thailand. There as they travel across the continent they begin to tentatively establish a relationship - a new relationship - and Dan finally comes to realise what it is he wants and needs in his life.

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Author:   Ray Kluun ,  Shaun Whiteside
Publisher:   Pan Macmillan
Imprint:   Pan Books
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.10cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 19.70cm
Weight:   0.212kg
ISBN:  

9780330454353


ISBN 10:   0330454358
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   06 June 2008
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

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Wrenching, humorous, compelling. -- Booklist on Love Life


Wrenching, humorous, compelling. Booklist on Love Life Wrenching, humorous, compelling. -- Booklist on Love Life A bestseller in Europe, and the translation is poignant, humorous, and very graphic on the cancer . . . his lacerating portraits of the medical establishment will certainly hit home. --Publishers Weekly on Love Life Wrenching, humorous, compelling. --Booklist on Love Life


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Ray Kluun (Kluun to his friends) was a marketing man in a previous life. In 2001 he lost his 36-year-old wife to cancer. Kluun took his daughter Eva (then three years old) to Australia and wrote Love Life (2006), which became a massive word-of-mouth bestseller in Europe, selling 750,000 copies.

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