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	Liepman Literary Agency Marc Koralnik
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MY PRESENT AGE

Guy Vanderhaeghe

Vanderhaeghe is a savagely funny writer. . . . He has created the perfect vessel from which to launch his kamikaze sorties into contemporary life. . . . He has created one of the more quirkily appealing characters in recent fiction. Washington Post

Keenly observant, humane, and darkly comic, MY PRESENT AGE is an irresistible story about what happens when an Everyman becomes a casualty of modern life, from a three-time Governor General's Awardwinning author. Ed is punchy, unemployed, and on the wrong side of thirty. After his exasperated wife, Victoria, leaves him, Ed finds consolation where he has always found it, in his own rich and eccentric imagination. Pursued by the demons of his own obsession, Ed embarks on a quixotic quest to find Victoria. As he prowls the city's parking garages and motel strips, Ed begins a journey back into his past and is forced most reluctantly to confront the web of lies and self-deceptions he has woven to keep reality at bay until even his fantasies start to turn against him.

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Book Published 1984-05-11 by McClelland & Stewart

Comments

"An irresistible first novel. . . . An achievement."

"Vanderhaeghe's considerable achievement in the novel is to explore the bleak landscape of contemporary relationships with uncommon insight and to create a memorable character who evokes our sympathy despite or perhaps because of his many frailties."

"A beautifully sustained performance."

"It is compulsively readable . . . and presents us with wholly credible people. This is realism at its best."

"My Present Age is black comedy at its intimate and subversive best."

"Compassionate, humorous, and thematically important."

"A masterful novel. . . . Not a single false note mars the author's graceful, precise depiction of the present era and its pitfalls."

"Vanderhaeghe is an author of palpable and protean gifts."