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A Pulitzer Prizeâwinning authorâs âsparkling, smartâ tale of an aging writer and his younger wife looking for new lifeâor a way to end itâin Key West (The New York Times).  Every schoolboy in America knows the work of author Wilkie Walker, who won fame and fortune with his accessible nature books. But as he turns seventy, his renown is nearly gone. Now he sits up at night torturing himself with fears that his career was a waste, his talent is gone, and his body destroyed by cancer. His wife, Jenny, twenty-five years younger, can tell only that he is out of sorts. She has no idea her husband is on the verge of giving up on life.  When Jenny suggests spending the winter in Key West, Wilkie goes along with it. After all, if you need to plan a fatal âaccident,â Florida is a perfectly good place to do so. And when they touch down in the sunshine state, the Walkers find itâs not too late to live lifeâor end itâhowever they damn well please.  The National Book Awardâshortlisted author of Foreign Affairs Affairs, The War Between the Tates, and The Last Resort writes a âsparkling, smart . . . highly volatileâ novel (The New York Times).  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alison Lurie including rare images from the authorâs collection.  |
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