From the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook comes a funny and tender story about family, friendship, grief, acceptance, and Richard Gere. For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. But when she dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. His grief counsellor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mom, Saturday mass, and the library learn how to fly? Bartholomew thinks he's found a clue when he discovers a "Free Tibet" letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother's underwear drawer. Believing that the actor is meant to help him, Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life, writing Richard Gere a series of highly intimate letters. Philosophy and faith, alien abduction and cat telepathy, the Catholic Church and the mystery of women, are all explored in his soul-baring epistles. But mostly the letters reveal one man's heart-breakingly earnest attempt to assemble a family of his own. Eventually a family of sorts assembles, and Bartholomew is joined by this unlikely crew of companions on his quest to find his biological father...but what they discover is so much more.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Pan Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781447247500
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 284
Tiempo de lectura:
5h 50m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 10/02/2014
Año de edición: 2013
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Matthew Quick
Mención de Honor PEN/Hemingway Award, traducido a treinta idiomas y habitual en las listas de los más vendidos del New York Times , es el autor de Sorta Like a Rock Star , que recibió una crítica excelente, y de la novela para adultos Un final feliz , libro en que se basa la película premiada con un Óscar El lado bueno de las cosas . Vive en la región central de Massachusetts con su esposa, la novelista Alicia Bessette.