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Book Description

Richard Novak is a modern-day Everyman, a middle-aged divorce trading stocks out of his home in the surreal promised land of Los Angeles. Having done such a good job getting his life under control, he now needs no one - except his trainer, nutritionist, and housekeeper. He is functionally dead and doesn't even notice until two incidents - an attack of intense pain that lands him in the emergency room and the discovery of an expanding sinkhole outside his house - conspire to hurl him back into the world.

On his way home from the hospital, Richard forms the first of many new relationships: He meets the owner of a doughnut shop, an immigrant who dreams big. He adopts a weeping housewife he finds in the produce section of the supermarket, and later befriends a reluctant '60s counterculture icon. Simultaneously Richard is brought back in closer touch with his family - his aging parents, his brilliant brother, the beloved ex-wife whom he still desires, and finally, before the story's finale, his estranged son, Ben.

Book Dimension

length: (cm)23.3 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)17.5