Hilma Wolitzer Boeken

When Edward Schuyler, a modest sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plentry of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desireable creature. Edward recieves phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while friends try to set him up at dinner parties. The problem is that Edward doesn't feel available. He's still mourning his beloved wife, Bee, and prefers the familiar routine of work, gardening, and bird-watching. But then his stepchildren surprise him by placing a personal ad in The New York Review of Books on his behalf. Soon the letters flood in, and Edward is town between his loyalty to Bee's memory and his growing longing for connection. Gradually, he begins dating, and just when Edward thinks he has the game fiigured out, a chance meeting proves that love always arrives when it's least expected

Another day! And then another and another and another. It seemed as if it would all go on forever in that exquisitely boring and beautiful way. But of course it wouldn't; everyone knows that. In this collection, Hilma Wolitzer invites us inside the private world of domestic bliss, seen mostly through the lens of Paulie and Howard's gloriously ordinary marriage. From hasty weddings to meddlesome neighbours, ex-wives who just won't leave, to sleepless nights spent worrying about unanswered chainmail, Wolitzer captures the tensions, contradictions and unexpected detours of daily life with wit, candour and an acutely observant eye

Edward Schuyler, 62 und Biologielehrer in New York, vergräbt sich nach dem plötzlichen Tod seiner Frau Bee in Arbeit. Bald schon wird die Damenwelt auf den kultivierten verwitweten Gentleman aufmerksam: Frühere Freundinnen rufen an, die Kinder geben eine Kontaktanzeige in der New York Times auf. Ed hat daraufhin einige jedem Woody-Allen-Film würdige, skurrile Begegnungen, etwa mit Datingprofi Karen oder der trauernden Roberta. Doch bald muss er feststellen, dass er aus der Übung ist – und wirft die restlichen Zuschriften weg. Nur eine gewisse Ann gibt nicht auf … Eine bezaubernde Liebesgeschichte über die Kunst, das Leben zu genießen, über die Vergangenheit, die einen einholt, und über den Mut zur zweiten Liebe.