Deliberate Steps: (Along a Familiar Path) - Hardcover

Gibson, Dick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1425929281 ISBN 13: 9781425929282

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2007

Synopsis

It's October 1968. Just as Rob Grant is preparing to leave for a conference in Las Vegas, his attorney calls and tells him his divorce is final. Rob is now a single parent living in Connecticut with two teenage sons. The younger one, Greg, gets into drugs, and Rob takes immediate steps to find help. Now twice divorced, Rob is wary of committing to a permanent relationship. While in Vegas, he meets Kate Skowron, a pretty face who follows him back East. She is the first of several women he romances as he searches for a new companion and a surrogate mother for his boys. They hope to see immediate results-especially Greg, who needs firm maternal guidance. But a conflict arises when Rob finds that his personal timetable and cautious approach aren't compatible with either the boys' hopes or those of the women he dates. Rob then encounters a professional setback when the oil company he works for in New York becomes the target of an acquisition. This unforeseen complication tests his resilience, but a new woman enters his life and brings Rob love and support. Will it be enough to help him face the uncertainties that lie ahead? Author's web address: www.dg-books.com

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Review

Summation: Although the challenge of single fatherhood is a
sub-theme, this book is about the pleasure of the chase. Gibson's story
documents new sexual revolution norms
emerging at the tail end of the 1960s, simple days when lonely people with
needs offered to show strangers their etchings (wink wink nudge nudge).
Readers riding along can enjoy vicarious peccadillos without the risk of
contracting a social disease.
-- Clarion Reviews

From the Publisher

It's October 1968 and Rob Grant is confronted with many of the complications of life that parents and professionals face today. From his recent divorce, to developments at his company, readers follow him through his quest for personal happiness and success in his profession in Dick Gibson's new novel, Deliberate Steps. The story begins as Rob is about to leave for a conference in Las Vegas. His attorney calls and tells him his divorce is final. It's a second failed marriage, and he soon encounters an unwelcome problem when Greg, the younger of his two teenage sons, gets into drugs and needs both professional help and firm maternal guidance. As a single father who commutes from Connecticut into New York each day, he needs all the help he can get and he looks for it in some of the women he romances.

Although wary of committing to a permanent relationship too quickly, Rob's interest in women has by no means diminished. Together with a string of affairs involving a suburban divorcée, a New York artist, a company secretary, and a woman he runs into in Mexico City, it all begins when Rob meets Kate at the Las Vegas conference. Immediately taken with him, she follows him back to the East Coast. He has no doubt that she'd provide help to his family, but his personal timetable and cautious approach could be a hindrance.

When the oil company Rob works for in Manhattan is threatened with acquisition, another unforeseen complication tests his mettle. But a local woman, Luisa, enters his life and her love and unselfish support help Rob stand up to the issues that confront him.

Deliberate Steps, the first in a trilogy of novels about Rob Grant, is a genuine account of a career-driven man trying to juggle his son's drug problem, the possible loss of a good management job, and an ongoing search for a wife and surrogate mother for his boys. Gibson's realistic, touching portrayal of Rob pulls readers into his everyday pursuit of contentment—both personal and professional.

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1425929281
• ISBN 13: 9781425929282
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 426