基本信息出版社：Granta UK
页码：279 页
出版日期：2004年08月
ISBN：1862076642
International Standard Book Number：1862076642
条形码：9781862076648
EAN：9781862076648
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

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When the doctor delivers bad news, what is a man to do with the life he has left to live? He can cry, he can wonder which particular cigarette did him in. Or he can call the friend he loves in the city he adores, and travel the streets and avenues of New York to meet him. Every corner, every block has a memory: women, food, drinks, friendship, the comedy of office life and of sexual success and failure. It's as though the buildings of Manhattan are a shelf of books, each to be opened and read, as if for the last time. This tender, funny novel is a salute to a great city's enchantment and the sweet, frustrating mysteries of life.
作者简介 Todd McEwen was born in California in 1953 and graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1975. He worked in broadcasting, theatre and the rare book trade before settling in Scotland in 1981. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife, novelist Lucy Ellman. Several of his stories have been published by Granta magazine. This is his fourth novel.