No Fireworks
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780571226276
Subjects: Modern fiction; General; Fiction - General; Fiction
Description: Abe Stone is a sixty-one-year-old alcoholic teacher going through his third divorce. When he starts receiving letters from his dead mother, Evelyn, he is thrown into a late-stage identity crisis. His fourteen-year-old grand-daughter, Lucille, is expelled from school and the unlikely couple embark on a quest to work out what Evelyn is trying to impart and how Abe can begin to put his dishevelled life in order.