Excelsior

by Randall Silvis

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805004408
• ISBN13: 9780805004403
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

For anyone who's felt trapped by life...

That's what immediately caught my attention about this book. Somehow, the author makes the initially hum-drum life of a cubicle-bound accountant into a highly entertaining page turner. I got this finished in one night because I couldn't put it down. It's hard to believe that more people haven't read it. Bloomhardt is a man with good intentions, who somehow usually messes things up. Despite loving his wife and son, there's a barrier between them that he can't manage to break through. At the start of the book, his life is dull and routine. His biggest complaint is that nothing ever changes. He sees his options in life as going to work at a job he hates or staying at home with a family he can't communicate with. His co-workers are a bunch of low lives for the most part, and Bloomhardt's view on life is alternately bleak and humorous. As one of his friends says when he's just about hit rock bottom after the split with his wife, "We know what the world is made of. It's made of food and drink, noise and stink, sex and death." Bloomhardt's reminisces about his youth, how he wound up bound to a job he hates and a mortgage to a house he doesn't like, makes for some good reading. So for anyone who's ever felt trapped by life while managing to see the humor in it, this book is for you.