EAN: 9780385545624

THE NEW LIFE OF HUGO GARDNER - LOUIS BEGLEY GEB...

Beloved author Louis Begley returns to the monied halls of the Upper East Side with a sharp new
comedy of manners. Divorced after decades of comfortable marriage  retired journalist Hugo
Gardner sets out to explore paths not travelled. After four decades of what he believes to be a
happy  healthy partnership  Hugo Gardner's world is overturned when he learns that his wife 
Valerie  is not only requesting a divorce but has left him for a younger  more vital man. Hugo
an octogenarian political writer and retired journalist for Time  must rethink the way he's
lived  and reassess how he'd like to spend his remaining years. Reconsidering past
relationships in his mind  with years of distance  Hugo begins to see things in a new light:
Valerie  whose youth and ambition eventually came between them  his children  whose support
might be more financially than emotionally motivated  and his friends  who  like him are
rapidly aging before his very eyes. With an ominous oncologist's report hanging over his head 
Hugo decides to get away for a bit  to a conference in Paris. There  a new romance blooms and
Hugo finds himself wondering if growing old in Paris might be the perfect antidote to the drama
he left behind in New York. Unflinching  witty  and urbane as ever  Louis Begley delivers a
spot-on satire of the world of New York's aging elite  and uncovers the unexpected delights a
late-in-life change can offer.

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