After a Fashion – Middleton, Stanley

ISBN: 009168420X
Title: After a Fashion
Author: Middleton, Stanley
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hutchinson, London
Publication Date: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Book Condition: F
D-j Condition: F

Synopsis: Stanley Middleton's new novel, After a Fashion, tells the story of J. J. Harrington, an academic in his early thirties, of considerable authority, whose life, for all its apparent fulfillment, is flawed by emotional failure. He has been left by his actress wife, and has settled for a kind of success - esteem within his faculty, an excellent book or two, a handsome house, a refusal to involve himself deeply with other people. When his professor suggests that a young woman academic might benefit from his help, and at the same time both his former wife makes contact and Harrington meets Anne, his relatively unsophisticated neighbor, the stage is set for major changes in his life, but will he be able to respond to them?