Men ​from the Boys (Harry Silver 3.) 2 csillagozás

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The ​final episode in the trilogy that began with the million-copy bestseller MAN AND BOY, followed with MAN AND WIFE and end ten years on with MEN FROM THE BOYS. Ten years on from MAN AND BOY, it is crunch time for Harry! Life is good for Harry Silver. He has a beautiful wife, three wonderful children and a great job as producer of the cult radio show, A Clip Round the Ear. But Harry is about to turn forty and his ex-wife is back in town. Soon it could be time to kiss the good life goodbye! When Harry's 15-year-old son Pat moves out to live with his mother, the hard times have only just begun. With his son gone, his job at risk and his wife unsettled by the reappearance of her own ex, their dream seems to be falling apart. Into the chaos of Harry Silver's life stroll two old soldiers who fought alongside Harry's late father in The Battle of Monte Cassino in the spring of 1944. Will these two grumpy old men help Harry reclaim his son, his family and his life? And can they show… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2010

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HarperCollins, London, 2011
330 oldal · ISBN: 9780007327775
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HarperCollins, London, 2010
276 oldal · ISBN: 9780007327768

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When you are thirty you want to be free. … but when you're forty you want to belong.

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The Japanese have a saying – a man gets bored with a beautiful woman after three days, but he gets used to a plain woman after three days.

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‘I didn’t know where else to go, ’he said.
‘Then you come here,’ I said. ‘You come back to me. When there is nowhere else to go, you just come home. And you stay as long as you want. Okay?’

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‘The thing about grandparents,’ said my son, ‘is that they love you in a different way. Parents – sorry – but they drive you up the wall. Because they are always on at you to be better. Smarter. Tougher. Nicer.’… ‘Grandparents just accept you the way you are. Grandparents are happy with you in a way that parents never are.’

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'Oh, so you're his mother as well his father?' I could never work that one out.
I was his father. And if his mother wasn't around, then I could still only be his father. If you lose your right arm, does your left arm become both your right and left arm:No it doesn't. It is still your left arm. And you get on with it.

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.. if a marriage produces a great child, then can that marriage ever be said to have failed?

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’Do you know her name?’

’Elisabeth Montgomery,’ he said.
The eight syllables tripped off his tongue. The way he said them, it was infinitely more than a name. It was a sight, a prayer, a kiss, a love song.

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Because I always think it is bizarre – no, I always think that it is unbelievable – that you can love someone, really and truly love someone, and then one day you do not recognise their face.
If you have loved someone, you would think that you would know that face always and forever – wouldn’t you? Shouldn’t every line of that face be stamped on your heart?
But it is not. Your heart forgets.

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A mouth that is perfect fit for your mouth. That’s not such an easy thing to find, if you ask me.

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They [the kids] need your love most when they deserve it the least.

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