Jack Driscoll - Böcker

Perry Lafond, approaching forty, knows he's had a decent life with his attractive, longtime wife, Marcia. But he's come to the point where he is not sure that he can continue on. In the meantime, there's the question of children. His wife, battling infertility, is obsessed with the idea of having a baby. Perry wants a child too--maybe. Suddenly, he can't keep his mind off other women. In his job as a probation officer he becomes recklessly infatuated with the pretty, beleaguered wife of a parolee who has a young child. Perry's own confusion endangers this child as well as a nephew under his care. Always unflinchingly honest, Jack Driscoll tracks a man's headlong--and just possibly redemptive--leap into chaos.

Stories in the realistic tradition of lives overlooked, voices unheard, and characters hellbent on not only survival but on defeating the demons of boredom and circumstance, and transcending those geographical/emotional boundaries that define them in time and place.

Beautifully-crafted prose from one of Michigan’s most original voices.