Rebecca Stowe
Description
'Everything was falling apart. The world, the economy, his apartment building. The entire city was crumbling to pieces in big noisy chunks. The only t
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hing that wasn't falling apart, Harry Butler thought happily, was himself.'
There's no mid-life crisis for ex-bongo band star Harry Butler on his 47th birthday. He likes his life. Thanks to the salary made by his adored if slightly flabby wife, he spends his days writing his eagerly awaited first novel in their Manhattan tenement and keeping in shape, or delivering the occasional singing telegram. But that morning he sees an unknown body fall past his window, which proves the catalyst for a series of lies, misunderstandings, and unlucky coincidences. Suddenly, everything that Harry holds dear is under threat.
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