A Window Facing West: A Novel

By John S. Tarlton

Book Overview

The witty first-person narrative of a baby boomer's mid-life crisis, set in Baton Rouge. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882593308
• ISBN13: 9781882593309
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Bridgeworks
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Middle aged guy talk that they don't want wives to know.

Reads like actual conversations middle aged guys have about their wives and sex that the wives never know about. You wonder whether Tarleton has been tapping your phone. Funny and insightful. A great book to read on the plane. Don't let your wife find it.

I loved this book!

I usually don't care too much about the daily travails of white middle-aged men, but in this book, common-place events are heightened into hilarity and despair by the narrator's deadpan delivery. Well written, acute life observations, deeper relationship issues than one first assumes - and a quick, easy read. A peek into everyman's head. My husband and I rarely read the same books, but this is an exception. I Look forward to Tarlton's next one.

Starts as piquant burlesque; evolves into stirring portrait.

This is good writing. Fine steady hand. The novel starts out piquant and burlesque with some overgrown jockstrap snapping and then moves into bitter sweet levels of remorse, beauty, release and longing. Many of the late scenes stop you cold; poignance without pity or affectation. From "the Topless Patio" to the main character's -Gatlin's- father's final unraveling, scene after scene will stay with you long after Tarlton's considerable wit washes away.