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Millard Salter's last day
- Title
- Millard Salter's last day / Jacob M. Appel.
- Author
- Appel, Jacob M., 1973-
- Publication
- New York : Gallery Books, 2017.
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 18-321 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 245 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "In an effort to forestall the frailty and isolation of old age, psychiatrist Millard Salter intends to kill himself at the end of the day-but not before he ties up his life's loose ends. These include a with his ne'er-do-well youngest son, Lysander, who at 43 has yet to hold down a paying job; an unscheduled rendezvous with his first wife, Carol, whom he hasn't seen in 27 years; and a brief visit to the grave of his second wife, Isabelle, with whom he fathered an illegitimate child. Yet on what he intends to be the final day of his life, Millard has also assumed a far greater responsibility: to assist a theater director suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease in ending her own life with a helium hood. Complicating this plan is that, during the months since Compassionate Endings has paired Millard with Delilah, the widower has fallen in love with her. As Millard sets about wrapping up his life, he confronts a lifetime of challenges during a single day: a narcissistic colleague intent on having his job, an obsessive administrator browbeating him for a report that will doom his colleagues, and an escaped lynx that is roaming the hospital in search of prey. Meanwhile, as Millard prepares for his impending suicide, his family is planning a surprise for him of its own"--
- Subject
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Humorous
- FICTION / General
- Psychiatrists > Fiction
- Suicide > Moral and ethical aspects > Fiction
- Man-woman relationships > Fiction
- Aging > Fiction
- Older people > Fiction
- Adult children of aging parents > Fiction
- Adult children of aging parents
- Aging
- Man-woman relationships
- Older people
- Psychiatrists
- Suicide > Moral and ethical aspects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-321
- ISBN
- 9781507204085
- 1507204086
- LCCN
- 2017014958
- OCLC
- 971092195
- Author
- Appel, Jacob M., 1973- author.
- Title
- Millard Salter's last day / Jacob M. Appel.
- Publisher
- New York : Gallery Books, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Appel, Jacob M., 1973- author. Millard Salter's last day First Gallery Books trade paperback edition. New York : Gallery Books, 2017 9781507204092 (DLC) 2017021408
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-321