The master of happy endings : a novel
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- ISBN: 9780887625237
- ISBN: 0887625231
- ISBN: 9780887628160
- ISBN: 0887628168
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1 online resource - Publisher: Toronto : Thomas Allen Publishers, 2010.
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Subject: | Older people -- Fiction Tutors and tutoring -- Fiction Teenage actors -- Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Electronic books. |
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Summary:
Axel Thorstad lives in a shack on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia. Once a popular school teacher and thespian who touched the lives of hundreds of his students, he now lives in retirement and mourns the recent death of his wife. But even this stoical giant of a 77-year-old finds the isolation too much. He begins to run want ads in newspapers offering his services as a tutor, and meets the indomitable Mrs. Montana. She hires Axel to coach her precocious teenage-TV-actor son Travis for his school exams while he shoots a new episode in Hollywood.