Man and Boy - Hardcover

Parsons, Tony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570717257 ISBN 13: 9781570717253

Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc, 2001

Synopsis

Facing his thirtieth birthday with trepidation, Harry Silver watches his perfect life crumble around him when his wife leaves him and he must adjust to raising his son alone.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Tony Parsons' debut novel Man and Boy was named the Butler & Tanner Book of the Year at the British Book Awards this evening in London. Published by HarperCollinsUK, Man and Boy has sold over 750,000 copies and been on the British bestsellers list for over 50 weeks.

Sourcebooks, Inc. -- an independent publisher based in the Chicago suburb of Naperville -- holds the North American rights for Man and Boy, which is the inaugural title in its new fiction imprint, Sourcebooks Landmark. The novel, which had an initial print run of 50,000, began shipping to U.S. bookstores on February 14th. Man and Boy is a Literary Guild Featured Alternate this Spring.

Parsons is scheduled for an initial 10-city American tour beginning on March 19th; he will be stopping in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Seattle, Minneapolis and Denver.

About the Author:

Born to a blue-collar family in the East End of London, Tony Parsons became a music journalist, covering the new wave and punk rock explosion for the British music magazine NME. Parsons' award-winning journalism has also appeared in magazines such as GQ and Elle. He is currently a columnist for the Mirror and regularly appears on BBC TV's Late Review and in his own television documentaries. Man and Boy is his first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1570717257
• ISBN 13: 9781570717253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340