Harry Silver has it all: a beautiful wife, a wonderful son, a great job in the media--but in one night he throws it all away. 
Just yesterday Harry gave himself a shiny red sports car for his thirtieth birthday. Today he faces the baffling questions of a suddenly single dad: --How do you wash a four-year-old's hair? --Should he eat green spaghetti for breakfast? --What do you tell his Mommy from the emergency room phone? 
In this poignant and witty novel, Harry has to bring up his child alone, look after his parents, work out his relationships and hold down a job. 
As millions of women have discovered before him, that is not as simple as it may have seemed. 
Man and Boy is by turns funny, sharp, warm and heart-wrenching. It is a brilliantly engaging novel from one of the most gifted and influential commentators writing today.

Man and Boy

Literature & Fiction

PARSONS, TONY

Contemporary

Harpercollins

Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend the rest of his life- and then lost her. He doesn't believe you get a second chance at love.Returning to the England he left behind during the brief idyllic time of his marriage, Alfie finds the rest of his world collapsing around him - his parents' marriage, his grandmother's health, his own ambition to be a writer. He takes comfort in a string of pointless, transient affairs with his students at Churchill's Language School , and he tries to learn Tai Chi from an old Chinese man, George Chang.And then one day a young single mother is knocking on his door asking him to help her get an English Literature A Level so that she can return to college. and Alfie's life changes.Will Alfie ever find a family life as strong as the Changs? Can he give up meaningless sex for a meaningful relationship? And how do you play it when the woman you like has a difficult child who is infatuated with a TV wrestler called The Slab?

One for my baby

Man and Wife

A fabulously engaging and exciting novel about a man who has to learn about life and love the hard way. Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. And in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away. Man and Boy is the story of how he comes to terms with his life and achieves a degree of self-respect, bringing up his son alone and, gradually, learning what words like love and family really mean. It is very well written, pacy, funny, and heart-breakingly moving.

HARPER/COLLINS

New novel about men, love and relationships by the author of the Book of the Year, Man and Boy. Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend the rest of his life, and then lost her. He doesn't believe you get a second chance at love. Returning to the England he left behind during the brief, idyllic time of his marriage, Alfie finds the rest of his world collapsing around him. He takes comfort in a string of pointless, transient affairs with his students at Churchill's Language School, and he tries to learn Tai Chi from an old Chinese man, George Chang. Will Alfie ever find a family life as strong as the Changs'? Can he give up meaningless sex for a meaningful relationship? And how do you play it when the woman you like has a difficult child who is infatuated with a TV wrestler known as The Slab? Like his runaway bestseller, Man and Boy, Tony Parsons's new novel is full of laughter and tears, biting social comment and overwhelming emotion.

One For My Baby

Humor & Satire

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

Harry Silver returns to face life in the "blended family." A wonderful new novel about modern times, which can be read as a sequel to the million selling Man and Boy, or completely on its own. Man and Wife is a novel about love and marriage -- about why we fall in love and why we marry; about why we stay and why we go. Harry Silver is a man coming to terms with a divorce and a new marriage. He has to juggle with time and relationships, with his wife and his ex-wife, his son and his stepdaughter, his own work and his wife's fast-growing career. Meanwhile his mother, who stood so steadfastly by his father until he died, is not getting any younger or stronger herself. In fact, everything in Harry's life seems complicated. And when he meets a woman in a million, it gets even more so! Man and Wife stands on its own as a brilliant novel about families in the new century, written with all the humour, passion and superb storytelling that have made Tony Parsons a favourite author in over thirty countries.

Harper

Romance

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

London. 23 cm. 297 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.

Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. And in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away.  Man and Boy is the story of how he comes to terms with his life and achieves a degree of self-respect, bringing up his son alone and, gradually, learning what words like love and family really mean.  It is very well written, pacy, funny, and heart-breakingly moving.

Man And Boy

Modern-day relationships are tested in this very realistic, contemporary story about procreation and new life.

The Family Way

Literary

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Man and Boy

One for my baby

Man and Wife

Man and Boy

One For My Baby

Man and Wife

One For My Baby

Man and Wife

Man And Boy

The Family Way