An Only Son

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His Only Son

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Author : Leopoldo Alas
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2016-10-04

His Only Son written by Leopoldo Alas and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Fiction categories.

The unlikely hero of His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, is a romantic and a flautist by vocation—and a failed clerk and kept husband by necessity—who dreams of a novelesque life. Tied to his shrill and sickly wife by her purse strings, he enters timidly into a love affair with Serafina, a seductive second-rate opera singer, encouraged by her manager who mistakes Bonifacio for a potential patron. Meanwhile, Bonifacio’s wife experiences a parallel awakening and in the midst of a long-barren marriage, surprises them both with a son—but is it Bonifacio’s? In the accompanying novella, Doña Berta, the heroine of the title, an aged, poor, but well-born woman, forfeits her beloved estate in search of a portrait that may be all that remains of the secret love of her life. While largely unknown outside of Spain, Leopoldo Alas was one of the most celebrated writers of criticism in nineteenth-century Spain and employed his satirical talents to powerful and humorous effect in fiction. His Only Son was Alas’s second and final novel, full of characteristic humor, naturalistic detail, descriptive beauty, and moral complexity. His frail and pitiful characters—irrational, emotional actors drawn inexorably toward their foolish fates—are yet multidimensional individuals, often conscious of their own weaknesses and stymied by their very yearnings to be more than the parts they find themselves playing.

Only Son

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Author : Kevin O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Release Date : 1998-07-01

Only Son written by Kevin O'Brien and has been published by Kensington Publishing Corp. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07-01 with Fiction categories.

Every so often a novel comes along that is so true to life its impact is felt long after the last page is turned. Only Son is such a book. . . Divorced and alone, Carl Jorgenson has one dream; to have a son and give him the life and love he never had. His dream becomes a reality the day Amy McMurray leaves her son alone for one brief, unforgivable moment. In that split second, all their lives change forever. So begins the remarkable story of a mother's search for the child she has lost but will never abandon. . .of a man desperately holding on to the single thread of hope in his life. . .and of a young boy, a son to both, a stranger to himself, who teaches each of them about love, loss and forgiveness. Illuminated by a rare compassion, Only Son is a deeply felt, powerfully realized novel about the search for love and a place to belong. It is a novel about fate, the irreversible choices we make, and the forces we cannot control.

Only Son

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Author : John Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
Release Date : 2002

Only Son written by John Johnson and has been published by Grand Central Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

In the tradition of "Tuesdays with Morrie" comes the heartwarming story of a man who gave up a multimillion dollar contract as a television news anchor to care for, and make peace with, his dying father. Photos.

The Only Son

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Author : Stéphane Audeguy
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2008

The Only Son written by Stéphane Audeguy and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.

"Francois' story is a fascinating portrait of revolutionary Paris. Unlike Jean-Jacques, who extolled the virtues of the natural man, Francois celebrates the highly cultivated pleasures of the libertine. As he recalls the sights, sounds, and predilections of the demimonde, he has much more on his mind than mere titillation. In its examination of the erotic interplay between the individual and society, the private and the public man, The Only Son is, in essence, the anti-Confessions - Francois Rousseau's own, decidedly different, portrait of human nature."--BOOK JACKET.