A worldly, vigorous, successful married man discovers that he is dying. He immediately embarks on an intense love affair, all the while remaining committed to his wife and children. A dramatic love story set in London and Paris, it is both redemptive and metaphysical.
'It is in the central character that Tom Stacey has put the mechanism that elevates this novel to the master class' -Irish Times
'Tom Stacey's second novel is uncommonly confident about love and death. Published 16 years after his first, its maturing has been worth waiting for: the orderly writing, robust intelligence and honesty are steadily enlivening' -The Times
Genre: General Fiction
'It is in the central character that Tom Stacey has put the mechanism that elevates this novel to the master class' -Irish Times
'Tom Stacey's second novel is uncommonly confident about love and death. Published 16 years after his first, its maturing has been worth waiting for: the orderly writing, robust intelligence and honesty are steadily enlivening' -The Times
Genre: General Fiction
Visitors also looked at these books
Used availability for Tom Stacey's The Living and the Dying