The Resource The good luck of right now, Matthew Quick
The good luck of right now, Matthew Quick
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The item The good luck of right now, Matthew Quick represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
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- Summary
- For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. But when she dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. His grief counsellor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mum, Saturday mass, and the library learn how to fly? Bartholomew thinks he's found a clue when he discovers a "Free Tibet" letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother's underwear drawer. Believing that the actor is meant to help him, Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life, writing Richard Gere a series of highly intimate letters. Philosophy and faith, alien abduction and cat telepathy, the Catholic Church and the mystery of women, are all explored in his soul-baring epistles. But mostly the letters reveal one man's heart-breakingly earnest attempt to assemble a family of his own. Eventually a family of sorts assembles, and Bartholomew is joined by this unlikely crew of companions on his quest to find his biological father... but what they discover is so much more
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The good luck of right now
- Title
- The good luck of right now
- Statement of responsibility
- Matthew Quick
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. But when she dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. His grief counsellor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mum, Saturday mass, and the library learn how to fly? Bartholomew thinks he's found a clue when he discovers a "Free Tibet" letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother's underwear drawer. Believing that the actor is meant to help him, Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life, writing Richard Gere a series of highly intimate letters. Philosophy and faith, alien abduction and cat telepathy, the Catholic Church and the mystery of women, are all explored in his soul-baring epistles. But mostly the letters reveal one man's heart-breakingly earnest attempt to assemble a family of his own. Eventually a family of sorts assembles, and Bartholomew is joined by this unlikely crew of companions on his quest to find his biological father... but what they discover is so much more
- Summary
- When his mother dies, 38-year-old Bartholomew Neil, who doesn't know how to be on his own, discovers a letter in his mother's underwear drawer that causes him to write a series of highly intimate letters to actor Richard Gere, while embarking on a quest to find out where he belongs.
- Award
- LibraryReads Favorites, 2014
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10262487
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Quick, Matthew
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Grief
- Families
- Letter writing
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The good luck of right now, Matthew Quick
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000052433374
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 284 p.
- Isbn
- 9781447247500
- Label
- The good luck of right now, Matthew Quick
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000052433374
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 284 p.
- Isbn
- 9781447247500
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