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An Available Man (2012)

por Hilma Wolitzer

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:In this tender and funny novel, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer mines the unpredictable fallout of suddenly becoming single later in life, and the chaos and joys of falling in love the second time around. When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while well-meaning friends try to set him up at dinner parties. Even an attractive married neighbor offers herself to him.
The problem is that Edward doesnt feel available. Hes still mourning his beloved wife, Bee, and prefers solitude and the familiar routine of work, gardening, and bird-watching. But then his stepchildren surprise him by placing a personal ad in The New York Review of Books on his behalf. Soon the letters flood in, and Edward is torn between his loyalty to Bees memory and his growing longing for connection. Gradually, reluctantly, he begins dating (dating after death, as one correspondent puts it), and his encounters are variously startling, comical, and sad. Just when Edward thinks he has the game figured out, a chance meeting proves that love always arrives when its least expected.
With wit, warmth, and a keen understanding of the heart, An Available Man explores aspects of loneliness and togetherness, and the difference in the options open to men and women of a certain age. Most of all, the novel celebrates the endurance of love, and its thrilling capacity to bloom anew.
Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Readers Circle for author chats and more.
 
Funny, wise and touching.The Washington Post
 
Wonderful . . . [Hilma] Wolitzers vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always compassionate.The New York Times Book Review
 
Smart and poignant, An Available Man explores some universal truthsthat the past is never past, life is for the living, and dating is really, really hard.O: The Oprah Magazine
 
Charming . . . Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners.NPR
 
[Hilma Wolitzer is an] American literary treasure.The Boston Globe
 
A deeply satisfying story of love lost and found.Bookreporter.
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Plodding at the beginning, trite in the middle, and topped off with a stupendously undeveloped ending. Decent dialog but not enough to give this book more than zero stars. I suppose I got what I deserve for picking a book off the library shelf totally based on its title.
  donwon | Jan 22, 2024 |
This was a gentle, funny sort-of romance about navigating love and grief later in life. Wolitzer's innate compassion shines through—it was a kind book, but not sentimental or slow-moving, and a perfect novel to read during a difficult couple of weeks. ( )
1 vote lisapeet | Dec 24, 2022 |
Edward Schuyler se enfrenta al peor momento de su vida: la muerte de su esposa. Tras enviudar, se refugia en su trabajo como profesor de ciencias y en su pasión por los libros. Pero, sorpresivamente, las mujeres no paran de acecharlo. Un hombre sano, atractivo y disponible no es fácil de encontrar.
El problema es que Edward no se siente preparado para dar ese paso. Su familia, sin embargo, toma la iniciativa y pone un anuncio en The New York Review of Books para dar con la candidata perfecta. Las ofertas se multiplican y el viudo se debate entre la fidelidad al recuerdo de Bee y la necesidad de emprender una nueva vida. Pero, ¿es mejor confiar en una cita a ciegas que en el azar?
  Natt90 | Nov 16, 2022 |
A gentle book that is one of the best descriptions of being married. There is something very reenforcing about a good book that depicts ordinary lives well., something that doesn't happen often. It takes a bit of an unexpected turn two-thirds through, that I'm not sure is really faithful to the protagonist's character. Nothing too startling, it remains a gentle book. I'm just not convinced it fits or was really what the story needed. This book confirms my sense that Hilma Worlitzer is someone who writes well about her (and my) cohort from a completely contemporary inside view. Sometimes it is the familiar which is a most satisfying change. ( )
  Susan_Lerner | Apr 2, 2022 |
adult fiction. 60-something widower reenters the dating scene and eventually finds love again. I thought the premise was okay but somewhere in the middle it turned into a sort of senior soap opera, with Edward jumping into bed with one woman after another, with lots of drama in between. ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
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In the opening lines of Hilma Wolitzer’s wonderful new novel, the recently widowed Edward Schuyler stands in his living room, ironing, when the telephone rings. He picks it up to hear the clamorous, intrusive voice of a female suitor, attempting to break in on his grief. But he’d rather iron the blouses of his deceased wife, Bee, “as a way of reconnecting with her when she was so irrevocably gone” than date any of the women now scurrying in his direction. Bee, on her deathbed, had predicted this fate: “Look at you. They’ll be crawling out of the woodwork.”.... As dark as this material might sound, it isn’t. Wolitzer’s vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always compassionate. Her novels are social comedies: they may feature jiltings, separations and bereavement, but they tend to have happy endings.
 
As she has demonstrated in earlier books like Summer Reading and The Doctor's Daughter, Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners, while also recognizing that — for both her characters and her readers — there's more at stake than laughs in the situations she depicts. An Available Man chronicles Edward's clumsy adventures in, as one character puts it, "Dating After Death"; but it also goes further emotionally, evoking the swampy stages of grief and the raw loneliness that haunts Edward, as well as all those women circling him.
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Edward Schuyler was ironing his oldest blue oxford shirt in the living room on a Saturday afternoon when the first telephone call came.
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You wear your genitals on the outside and your feelings on the inside – the exact opposite of women.
The recently dead were such a social menace. Their absence was as aggressive as the loudest voice in a room. You could not speak of them without sorrow, or ignore them without shame and even trepidation. They ruined the natural flow of conversation and the pleasurable balance of coupledom.
…reading seemed to him like the last stronghold of privacy in a group-crazed society.
It’s just that you should choose someone to spend your life with who’s likely to wear well, someone kind and with a sense of humor.
Edward was glad he’d left the bottle in the car. He’d be damned if he’d break out good champagne for a French poodle.
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:In this tender and funny novel, award-winning author Hilma Wolitzer mines the unpredictable fallout of suddenly becoming single later in life, and the chaos and joys of falling in love the second time around. When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while well-meaning friends try to set him up at dinner parties. Even an attractive married neighbor offers herself to him.
The problem is that Edward doesnt feel available. Hes still mourning his beloved wife, Bee, and prefers solitude and the familiar routine of work, gardening, and bird-watching. But then his stepchildren surprise him by placing a personal ad in The New York Review of Books on his behalf. Soon the letters flood in, and Edward is torn between his loyalty to Bees memory and his growing longing for connection. Gradually, reluctantly, he begins dating (dating after death, as one correspondent puts it), and his encounters are variously startling, comical, and sad. Just when Edward thinks he has the game figured out, a chance meeting proves that love always arrives when its least expected.
With wit, warmth, and a keen understanding of the heart, An Available Man explores aspects of loneliness and togetherness, and the difference in the options open to men and women of a certain age. Most of all, the novel celebrates the endurance of love, and its thrilling capacity to bloom anew.
Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Readers Circle for author chats and more.
 
Funny, wise and touching.The Washington Post
 
Wonderful . . . [Hilma] Wolitzers vision of the world, for all its sorrow, is often hilarious and always compassionate.The New York Times Book Review
 
Smart and poignant, An Available Man explores some universal truthsthat the past is never past, life is for the living, and dating is really, really hard.O: The Oprah Magazine
 
Charming . . . Wolitzer is a champ at the closely observed, droll novel of manners.NPR
 
[Hilma Wolitzer is an] American literary treasure.The Boston Globe
 
A deeply satisfying story of love lost and found.Bookreporter.

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