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One year and six days into an unsatisfactory retirement, Howard Woods is awakened by his wife in the early hours of the morning to hear the news of a decades-old betrayal. He does not take it well. Howard upends his well-ordered life and, to the dismay of his family, announces his intention of traveling to Spain to join the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona.
Having thrown his life into chaos, Howard finds that his wife is no longer willing to restore it to order as she has always done in the past. He is now miserably committed to a Hemingway-inspired course of his own choosing but with little idea of how to change it or to achieve the resolution he desires. Instead of at home where he wishes to be, he ends up living at the Holiday Inn.
How does a middle-aged man of the Eisenhower era (who still can't do his own laundry) survive in the age of cell phones and cable TV? The result is hilarious and, at times, achingly poignant.
Cathie Pelletier's novels have been praised as "hilarious, generous and genuine" (New Yorker), "bitingly original" (Vogue), "masterful," (Washington Post), and "funny and unexpectedly moving" (New York Times). She is "absolutely, inherently funny," says the Los Angeles Times, "yet she can walk the tightrope between humor and grief without once losing her balance." In Running the Bulls, she is in top form.
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"That master juggler of literary tears and laughter is at it again: Cathie Pelletier’s Running the Bulls is a ribald, ruminating, and redemptive read." — Wally Lamb, author of She’s Come Undone
"Nobody walks the knife-edge of hilarity and heartbreak more confidently than Cathie Pelletier. In Running the Bulls she’s at her skillful, sure-footed best." —Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls
About the Author
CATHIE PELLETIER is the critically acclaimed author of six novels published under her own name--most recently Beaming Sonny Home--and of two novels published under the pseudonym K. C. McKinnon.
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- PublisherUniv Pr of New England
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1584654872
- ISBN 13 9781584654872
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages276
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