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My Present Age

Guy Vanderhaeghe

1984239 pagesabout 4–5 hours
1984
first published
  • 1984Macmillan of Canada · 239 pages · ENGISBN 9780771598142
  • 1985Ticknor & Fields · 239 pages · ENGISBN 9780899193847
  • 1985Ticknor & Fields · 239 pages · ENG
  • 1986Bodley Head · 239 pages · ENGISBN 9780370307190
  • 1986McClelland and Stewart-Bantam · 241 pages · ENGISBN 9780770420666
  • 1989Sceptre · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780340510032
  • 1998Stoddart KidsISBN 9780773674752
  • 2000M&S · 252 pages · ENGISBN 9780771086830

Ed is punchy, unemployed, and on the wrong side of thirty. After his exasperated wife, Victoria, leaves him, Ed finds consolation where he has always found it, in his own rich and eccentric imagination. Pursued by the demons of his own obsession, Ed embarks on a quixotic quest to find Victoria. As he prowls the city's parking garages and motel strips, Ed begins a journey back into his past and is forced - most reluctantly - to confront the web of lies and self-deceptions he has woven to keep reality at bay - until even his fantasies start to turn against him. Keenly observant, humane, and darkly comic, My Present Age is an irresistible story about what happens when an Everyman becomes a casualty of modern life.

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