The escape
Subtitle: a novel in five parts
By: Adam Thirlwell.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780224089111; 9780224089128
Subjects: Older men -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction; Adultery -- Fiction; Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Alps Region -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: In a spa town snug in the Alps, at the end of the twentieth century, the widowed 78-year-old Haffner has arrived to claim his wife's inheritance: a villa expropriated by the century's totalitarian politics. In the spa hotel, he has tried to develop a mildly successful affair with a hungrily passionate married woman; and a much less successful affair with a capricious young yoga instructor. But gradually, through the tribulations of government bureaucracy, he discovers that he wants this villa, very much. Now that he has to fight for it, he wants it. For how can you ever desert from your past, your family, your history? That has always been the problem of Haffner's life. How do you remain a libertine?