Two of Us - Softcover

Halpin, Brendan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755322770 ISBN 13: 9780755322770

Publisher: REVIEW, 2005

Synopsis

Life is not going well for teenage Rosalind. As if losing her two moms to a truck-load of frozen poultry wasn't bad enough, she's been packed off to live with a guy she barely knows, just because he donated some sperm to her mothers years ago. Bewildered, but determined to do things right, Sean struggles with his new-found fatherhood, which is tested to its limits as his newly acquired daughter starts hanging out with Bitches With Problems and develops a worrying passion for heavy metal. But out of teenage misdemeanour, fist-fights at school and unresolved grief an unlikely alliance is formed. And in trying to make sense of what has happened to their lives, Rosalind and Sean gradually lay the foundations for something new.

About this title

About the Author

Brendan Halpin is the author of the memoir, IT TAKES A WORRIED MAN. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with his daughter Rowen, and works as a high-school English teacher in the Boston area.

Review

'Brendan Halpin's great gift as a writer is to hold his reader's heart in two worlds simultaneously-- one achingly funny, the other heartbreakingly sad. I read Donorboy in one sitting, my heart simultaneously cracked open and healed. What a beautiful, elegiac, laugh-out-loud book. In Donorboy, Halpin has redefined the epistolary novel' Alison McGhee, author of Shadow Baby and Was It Beautiful? 'Halpin's storytelling flair and compassion make this an engrossing read' Publishers Weekly 'If this charming tale makes it to the big screen - and it should - it might easlily star Hugh Grant in the role of Sean Cassidy, a public-interest lawyer and single guy approaching middle age who takes in the daughter he fathered years earlier via sperm donation... Like a budding romance the merging father-daughter relationship involves many missteps, more than one of them leading to the principal's office. By book's end, though, it's clear these two are meant for each other, and Halpin's hopeful finale feels just right' People

Edition details

• Publisher: REVIEW
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0755322770
• ISBN 13: 9780755322770
• Binding: Paperback