- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: Macmillan Paperback; First THUS edition (Jan 1 1989)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0771592116
- ISBN-13: 978-0771592119
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,633,004 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
My Present Age,
By teenybash (Nanoose Bay,B.C. CAN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Present Age (Paperback)
This is a very funny book, despite the trials and tribulations of the main character in the story. Written in the first person, we follow the "hero's" daily struggle to cope with his day to day existence.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
a novel about losing your way in life,
By "anonymous1979" (Edmonton, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: My Present Age (Paperback)
This book takes the characters and themes of the last two stories in Man Descending (a collection of short stories by Vanderhaeghe) and expands them into a full length novel. As his protagonist pursues an obsessive and hopeless quest to reunite with his ex wife, Vanderhaeghe explores the themes of disquiet, losing your way in modern society and a life that peaks too early. The uniqueness of My Present Age is that it features a character who should, by all means, be a very successful member of society and yet is living a life that is slowly deteriorating out of control. It is an often overlooked character type, unknown to those who assume that intelligence engenders success. Vanderhaeghe uses a straightforward, yet elegent, writing style to show that it is easy to lose your way in the modern world if you have never truly learned how to live in it. A good balance is struck between examining where individuals fail and where the sometimes ludicrously absurd nature of our society fails.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable and intriguing,
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This review is from: My Present Age (Mass Market Paperback)
The Regina "Leader Post", the newspaper in the city near Guy Vanderhaughe's home town, described this book when it was published in 1984 as "A brilliant exhibition of style and wit." I suppose that sums it up.
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