The master of happy endings : a novel

ISBN: 9780887625237
ISBN: 0887625231
ISBN: 9780887628160
ISBN: 0887628168
Physical Description: remote 1 online resource
Publisher: Toronto : Thomas Allen Publishers, 2010.

Hodgins, Jack 1938- (author.).

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.