Belly: A Novel
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0316158801 / Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, July 2005
Four years after serving time for his illegal gambling activities, Belly O'Leary finds his hometown and relationships with his daughters irrevocably changed and lapses back into dysfunctional behavior before struggling to come to terms with a tragic accident from years earlier.
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Belly O'Leary? Tough guy, lives hard. Holds his liquor well. Won't back down from a fight. Three grown daughters, one ex-wife, a mistress. Returning home to Saratoga Springs after four years away.But what the hell happened to his town? The bar he used to own is gone. Wal-Mart and Starbucks stand in the place of familiar landmarks. His daughters treat him like an afterthought. No one laughs at his jokes. No one remembers his bar.Belly is the story of a man shocked by change into a last shot at life. When the old friends, the old haunts, and the old ways look like they could cost him what is left of his life, Belly is forced to learn, small step by small step, to live in a new way. Holding on to an unshakable core of pride even as he confronts the secrets that have shaped his life until now, Belly makes an unlikely but irresistible hero.Written with an understanding of the seedier ways of men, Belly is a novel about the masculine path, its joys and pitfalls, and the chance for reconciliation and redemption in even the hardest-lived life.
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