Ira Foxglove by Thomas McMahon (2004, Hardcover) 
Ira Foxglove by Thomas McMahon (2004, Hardcover)
Publisher: Brook st Pr
Publication Date: 2004-02-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0972429530
ISBN-13: 9780972429535
Product ID: EPID30281097
Description: The eponymous Ira is an inventor who is both recovering from a recent heart attack and working on a new kind of artificial heart. Unfortunately, he's also massively depressed. His wife leaves him, he can't work, and so he embarks on a to...
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Synopsis
The eponymous Ira is an inventor who is both recovering from a recent heart attack and working on a new kind of artificial heart. Unfortunately, he's also massively depressed. His wife leaves him, he can't work, and so he embarks on a tour of Europe with a friend: fishing in Iceland, visiting his daughter in Paris, and trying to persuade his wife, who has moved to London, to come back to him. Finally, by a fluke involving a nubile young actress, the pieces of Ira's life begin to fall into place. The author of this novel, Thomas McMahon, died suddenly in 1999 at the age of 52; this short novel was found among his papers.

Details
Publication Date:2004-02-01

Size
Length:225 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:12.0 oz

Industry Reviews
"Humorous and generous yet sometimes disconcertingly fatalistic, McMahon's storytelling is based on an irresistible curiosity about how the world works....[IRA FOXGLOVE] may be an early work, set aside for who knows what reason, but it has the same loopy charm and rueful insight as McMahon's previously published fiction."
New York Times Book Review - Alida Becker (03/21/2004)

"Reminiscent of the best of Walker Percy: a deeply funny, strange, moving account of middle-aged angst overcome by genius, sympathy, and profound naiveté."
Kirkus (11/15/2003)

"Reminiscent of the best of Walker Percy: a deeply funny, strange, moving account of middle-aged angst overcome by genius, sympathy, and profound naiveté."
(11/15/2003)

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