The best of Adam Sharp

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

The best of Adam Sharp

Author:

Simsion, Graeme C. author

ISBN:

9781683244622

Edition:

Center Point Large Print edition.

Publication:

Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2017.

Physical Description:

430 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

General Note:

Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Two decades ago, Adam Sharp had a passionate relationship with an actress who taught him for the first time what it meant to find--and then lose--love. Now she's back in touch and Adam must decide if having a second chance is worth the risk"-- Provided by publisher.

On the cusp of turning fifty, Adam Sharp is happy with his partner Claire, excels in music trivia at quiz night at the local pub, looks after his mother, and does the occasional consulting job in IT. But he can never quite shake off his nostalgia for what might have been: his blazing affair more than twenty years ago with an intelligent and strong-willed actress named Angelina Brown who taught him for the first time what it means to find-- and then lose-- love. How different might his life have been if he hadn't let her walk away? When Angelina unexpectedly gets in touch, what does she want? Is a second chance worth the risks?

Subject(s):

Married people -- Fiction.

Marriage -- Fiction.

First loves -- Fiction.

Genre:

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Summary

Two decades ago, Adam Sharp's piano playing led him into a passionate relationship with Angelina Brown, an intelligent and strong-willed actress. They had a chance at something more ? but Adam didn't take it.Now, on the cusp of turning fifty, Adam likes his life. He's happy with his partner Claire, he excels in music trivia at quiz night at the local pub, he looks after his mother, and he does the occasional consulting job in IT. But he can never quite shake off his nostalgiafor what might have been. And then, out of nowhere, from the other side of the world, Angelina gets in touch. What does she want? Does Adam dare to live dangerously? Set to the soundtrack of our lives, The Best of Adam Sharp follows along with emotion and humor as one man looks back on his past and decides if having a second chance is worth the risk.

Author Notes

Graeme Simsion was born in Auckland, New Zealand. His education includes a BSc, GDipC and IS from Monash University, an MBA from Deakin University, a PhD from University of Melbourne, an Advanced Diploma of Screenwriting from RMIT, and a 2014 Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing, RMIT. His Ph.D thesis, Data Modeling: Description or Design, was published in 2006. He is a former IT consultant and the author of two nonfiction books on database design.

He won the 2012 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award for his book, The Rosie Project, which was published in 2013. It also won the Australian Book Industry's General Fiction Book of the Year for 2014 and the Australian Book Industry's Book of the Year for 2014. The screenplay for this book has been optioned to Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 2014 the sequel, called The Rosie Effect, made the New York Times bestseller list.

His 2016 novel, The Best of Adam Sharp, has been optioned by Vocab Films for a screenplay.

He has written numerous award-winning short stories. His most recent short stories include The Life and Times of Greasy Joe, The Big Issue, Like It Was Yesterday, Review of Australian Fiction, and Intervention on the Number 3 Tram, Melbourne Writers Festival.

(Bowker Author Biography)