Mistler's exit
By: Louis Begley.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Advertising executives -- Fiction; Liver -- Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction; Social isolation -- Fiction; Terminally ill -- Fiction; Vacations -- Fiction; Venice (Italy) -- Fiction
Description: A rich man with only six months to live takes a solitary holiday in Venice, a town he always liked. The novel follows Thomas Mistler, a New York advertising executive with cancer, in his attempt to seize the day, first with a young photographer, then with an unrequited love of his youth.