After decades as an itinerant alcoholic, middle-aged Dan Torrance uses his remnant powers to assist the dying before coming to the aid of a twelve-year-old girl being tortured by a tribe of murderous paranormals.
Middle-aged men
- Author:King, StephenSummary:
- Author:Endicott, MarinaSummary:
As the week opens, 50-something Hugh Argylle, owner of the Argylle Art Gallery, has a jarring fall from a ladder - a fall that leaves him with a fractured off-kilter vision of his own life and the lives of his friends, who are going...
- Author:Lewis, SinclairSummary:
George Babbitt is a successful realtor and proud member of the Booster’s club, but his conventional life has left him unsatisfied. Babbitt abandons his old life for one of bohemian values but slowly realizes that even rebellion isn’t...
- Author:Begley, LouisSummary:
Old-school lawyer Albert Schmidt has spent years climbing the ladder of success. But now, at what should be the pinnacle of his career, he is widowed, forcibly retired and harbors mixed feelings about his daughter's impending marriage....
- Author:Naipaul, V. S.Summary:
Trinidad. Mr. Mohun Biswas, a tenderhearted fellow with a thirst for books, struggles for independence from his wife's domineering family.
- Author:Doucette, DavidSummary:
At 46, Miles Hann gives it all up for the little cottage he has built on the slopes of his native Ingonish, Cape Breton. Miles has five times circumnavigated the globe and in his years of wandering has grown weary of man’s work of...