Seven Good Reasons Not To Be Good

Authors: Gould, John
Publisher: Harper Perennial
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000
ISBN: 9781443400381, Related ISBNs: 1443400386, 9781443400381, 9781554686339
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 368,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

Seven Good Reasons Not to Be Good opens with a postcard from forty-something Matt to his oldest friend Zane. Zane is dying, but maybe he doesn’t need to be. Matt has to do something about it. And that’s not Matt’s only problem. His father is disappearing into dementia and his marriage is in tatters. It seems the oft-postponed trip from Vancouver to Toronto is now critical—if Matt is to save his friend, say goodbye to his father and perhaps find something of himself he lost so long ago.

In Seven Good Reasons Not to Be Good, John Gould treats mortality, morality and modernity with equal measures of reverence, wit and sympathy.

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