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Mirth and madness reign supreme in William C. Anderson's high-flying comedy of a middle-aged man's return to college. His children having all left home (hence the title), our hero struggles with a wild, restless feeling. His sympathetic wife takes control, dissuades him from flying across the country in a balloon, and the couple moves to San Diego where he enrolls in college. Once in the swing of college days, Anderson happily makes friends with many of the students, gets involved with their love lives, literary ambitions, political causes, and their troubles with the law. He marches on a picket line and sponsors one of the contestants in a hilarious bathtub race.
The novel touches upon a topic largely ignored: what does a couple do when their kids have fled the nest and retirement age approaches? The Andersons saw two options: to get a hammock and swing themselves to death or to regird their loins and charge the golden years with all flags flying. They chose the second.
The pace is steady, and the comedy is steady too, yet Anderson is at times tender and genuinely moving. Witty and warm, WHEN THE OFFSPRING HAVE SPRUNG has all the freshness and ease of the best Anderson books.
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When the Offspring Have Sprung or Happiness Is Turning the Nursery Into a Wine Cellar
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Crown Publishers, 1978
ISBN 10: 0517533014
ISBN 13: 9780517533017
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Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 247pp. Red cloth spine with gray boards, small stain upper front corner tip and small dent back upper edge, DJ has chips and tears and small stain on upper front corner tip, First Edition, comedy of a middle-aged man's return to college. His children, having all left home, our hero struggles with a wild, restless feeling. His sympathetic wife takes control, dissuades him from flying across the country in a balloon, and the couple moves to San Diego where he enrolls in college, Seller Inventory # w231032824
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When the Offspring Have Sprung: Or, Happiness Is Turning the Nursery into a Wine Cellar
Published by
Crown Publishers, New YorK, 1978
ISBN 10: 0517533014
ISBN 13: 9780517533017
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Ariel's Book Nook, Pensacola, FL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1978 Edition, VG/VG, quarter bound in red cloth over grey boards, minor shelf wear, square and tight with unmarked interior. Mylar protected dust jacket, slight shelf wear and some staining, otherwise no chips, tears or creases and is not price clipped. Seller Inventory # 100236