Philip Sharpe in His Prime (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Toronto, spring 2000: Philip Sharpe has everything--tenure at U of T, a bestselling pop-philosophy book, the life he always planned--until Vince Carta comes calling. Carta is southern Ontario mafioso, and he wants Philip to ghostwrite his biography: a philosophy-inflected hagiography, flattering and well-paid. Philip refuses. Or tries to. But Carta is persuasive, the compensation is considerable, and the two men share more in their worldviews than Philip would like to admit--and more, Carta is dangling something no amount of professional dignity can easily dismiss: a lead on the mother who abandoned Philip as a child and disappeared into the red-light districts of Montréal. As the summer unfolds and the façade of Philip's perfect life begins to crack, the mobster's offer begins to look less like a compromise than a reckoning. Philip Sharpe in His Prime is a darkly comic novel about ambition, self-deception, and the uncomfortable distance between the philosophy we profess and the lives we actually lead.