hwapatch.blogg.se - Sorta like a rockstar book

quirky coming-of-age story about an earnest, guileless 38-year-old man with a dyspeptic stomach. He now lives in Holden, Massachusetts with his wife, novelist Alicia Bessette. He left his job as a tenured English teacher in Haddonfield, New Jersey, to write his first novel while living in Collingswood, New Jersey. He has a degree in English literature from La Salle University and an MFA from Goddard College. Quick was finalist for a 2009 PEN/Hemingway Award, and his work has been translated into several languages. His other novels include Sorta Like a Rockstar (2010), Boy21 (2012), Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (2013) and The Good Luck for Right Now (2014).

His debut novel, The Silver Linings Playbook, was adapted into a movie, starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, with Robert De Niro, Jackie Weaver, and Chris Tucker. Matthew Quick is an American author of young adult and fiction novels.

Currently-lives in Holden, Massachusetts.

Education-B.A., LaSalle University M.F.A, Goddard College.

In a rented Ford Focus, they travel to Canada to see the Cat Parliament and find his biological father.and discover so much more. ( From the publisher.) But mostly the letters reveal one man's heartbreakingly earnest attempt to assemble a family of his own.Ī struggling priest, a "Girlbrarian," her feline-loving, foulmouthed brother, and the spirit of Richard Gere all join the quest to help Bartholomew. Jung and the Dalai Lama, philosophy and faith, alien abduction and cat telepathy are all explored in his soul-baring epistles. In her final days, Mom called him Richard-there must be a cosmic connection.īelieving that the actor is meant to help him, Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life, writing Richard Gere a series of letters. He thinks he's found a clue when he discovers a "Free Tibet" letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother's underwear drawer.

When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother.