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Wait For Me, Jack
Addison Jones
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Description for Wait For Me, Jack
Paperback. Set near San Francisco, this warm and funny novel follows the fortunes and failures of Jack and Milly for sixty years. They marry in 1952, and typical of post-war couples, shift up a class. Optimistic and full of plans, they see themselves living the American Dream. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 199 x 38. Weight in Grams: 332.
Jack and Milly meant to live the American Dream – but in sixty years the dream has changed for their country and for them.
From the aches and indignities of old age Wait for Me, Jack takes us back to the exhilarating days when they first met, in an insightful, funny and, at times, devastating dissection of Jack and Milly’s marriage, revealing what makes people stay together – despite everything.
Product Details
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910985380
SKU
V9781910985380
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Addison Jones
Addison Jones is the author of four novels and a collection of short stories, all written under the name of Cynthia Rogerson. She holds a RLF Fellowship at Dundee University, and supervises for the University of Edinburgh's creative writing program.
Reviews for Wait For Me, Jack
'Spanning 60 years, Jones's deceptively casual, episodic novel is a warm-hearted dissection of a dysfunctional marriage: disappointing affairs, unfulfilled careers, chaotic children, incessant sniping and growing differences. Uplifting and astute, this should save marriages.-Sunday Times; 'A frank, earthy and drily amusing portrait of a marriage -The Herald; 'Brilliantly observed and often very funny.-Morag Joss; 'A lesson, not in how to ... Read more