- Paperback: 378 pages
- Publisher: HARPER COLLINS (2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0007803214
- ISBN-13: 978-0007803217
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 200 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,036,923 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Great book, good deal, delivered fast,
This review is from: One For My Baby (Paperback)
I had been wary of third party sellers in the past, but I'm very pleased with this purchase. It was delivered quickly, the book is in great shape & the cost was an excellent deal. Thank you. The book itself is a great one, but for some reason not readily available in my area. I look forward to reading it again.
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Well written character study,
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This review is from: One for My Baby: A Novel (Hardcover)
Language teacher Alfie Budd leaves Hong Kong after several years there to return home to London fueled by grief for a lost loved one. However, London may swing, but no where near the way Alfie remembers the town. Everything is different, but mostly his parents act strangely. Alfie thought they shared a loving relationship, but now his father piteously discos with a foreign au pair younger than his son while his mother has a love affair with her rose garden.Stunned, Alfie fears he will never capture what he once had in Hong Kong so he wanders through meaningless sexual encounters with his students (once a taboo, but more acceptable in this amoral 1993 London). As Alfie wonders about living without love, he descend deeper into a cesspool of immorality that gives him no solace except through the wizened teachings of Mr. Chang. Alfie is a solid center of this well written character study that leads to fans feeling empathy towards the lead protagonist still suffering from his loss and coping through hollow encounters. The secondary cast enables the readers and Alfie to see that life without love is empty. ONE FOR MY BABY raises philosophical issues of how to live (not just survive) and forge or keep relationships after a loved one dies yet the entertaining story line fails to truly respond to the concerns posed by Tony Parsons; thus readers will ask what's it all about Tony? Harriet Klausner
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Second As Enjoyable As His First,
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This review is from: ONE FOR MY BABY (Paperback)
I think British writer Tony Parsons is just fantastic. His "Man & Boy" was one of my favorite books last year, and this may end up being one of this years. I think he's great because he creates real, honest, and flawed protagonists. They don't have all the answers and more often than not will probably do something that produces hideous results, but their reality makes me root for them all the more. In his newest book, it's Alfie Budd, a teacher at a language school who is slowly moving through the unbearable grief caused by the tragic death of his wife. Like "Man & Boy" Parsons revisits themes of love and loss, & children's relationships to their parents.Equally moving and very funny, the book unravels with not a great amount of surprise, but a boudless supply of heart.
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