Best Friends (Thorndike Press Large Print Americana Series) - Hardcover

Berger, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786255927 ISBN 13: 9780786255924

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2003

Synopsis

Roy Courtright is good-looking, healthy, independent, well liked, and the owner of a successful classic car dealership. His best friend, Sam Grandy, is the near inverse: married, a spendthrift, overweight, needy, and near bankruptcy. Yet they've been inseparable best friends since childhood. As best friends, they share a close and loving bond, often stronger than the relationships other men share with their girlfriends, siblings, even wives. But in the twenty years since their friendship began, those fundamental differences have become more apparent and their relationship has grown strained. When the two friends encounter serious problems, they're forced to reckon with each other. Do these differences threaten their friendship -- or are the dissimilarities what make it possible? Can they escape the ties of their past, or are they intrinsically bound until death? When Sam's health begins to falter, he draws Roy into his life again -- and into a chain of deceit, sex, delusion, death, and love such as only a best friend could. With exquisite wit and insidious wisdom, Best Friends weaves a powerful tale about friendship -- and the complex loyalties involved.

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Review:

The Denver Post Best Friends proves Berger still has what it takes to write witty and insightful fiction.

Jeffrey Frank The Washington Post Book World The characters in Best Friends...are...recognizably human in their weaknesses and their destinies. It is Berger's genius as an observer and storyteller that we never, for a moment, take our eyes off them.

About the Author:

Thomas Berger is the author of twenty-two novels. His previous novels include REGIMENT OF WOMEN, MEETING EVIL, BEST FRIENDS and THE FEUD, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His LITTLE BIG MAN is known throughout the world. A number of other novels have also been made into movies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0786255927
• ISBN 13: 9780786255924
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 345