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Good As Gold

Joseph Heller author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:3rd Nov '11

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Good As Gold cover

A third-rate academic gets set for a glittering life in politics, but nothing goes as planned...

On paper, Bruce Gold seems to have carved a comfortable niche for himself. His ancient father thinks he's a fool, his children fail to notice him and even his wife doesn't realise he's no longer living with her. Hugely funny and sweetly sad, Good as Gold is the story of children grown up, parents grown old, anad lovers grown apart.On paper, Bruce Gold seems to have carved a comfortable niche for himself. But in the flesh, he's not so impressive. His ancient father thinks he's a fool, his children fail to notice him and even his wife doesn't realise he's no longer living with her. Gold's been promised a prestigious government post in Washington - only he's never been told what the position actually is. Hugely funny and sweetly sad, Good as Gold is the story of children grown up, parents grown old, anad lovers grown apart.

Dark, rude, paradoxical - and hilarious * Mail on Sunday *
The satire comes closer than ever before to home, both in terms of Heller's own background and the state of his nation * Independent *

ISBN: 9780099561286

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 28mm

Weight: 331g

464 pages