Rules for Old Men Waiting : A Novel (Paperback)

from nkmunn

A story within a story that shows how love can define a life, how decency can happen even between men who are not equals, how anger and ego can be tempered by friendship, how loyalty can overcome striving, how the burden and gift of mortality can bring a man to his knees or lift his thoughts beyo...

from michael09

Beautifully and intelligently written; romantic in its highly charged view of an over accomplished hero; contains something rarer than hen's teeth: a literary account of a rugby match. Non fans need not fret - it's very brief. And as a side benefit you get a mystic gypsy personal trainer providin...

from JRexV

Excellent book. Fascinating story of an old man in the throes of grief giving up on life and then deciding to live out the short remainder of his life with structure and grace. He develops his list of rules for living while waiting, and then begins the work of remembering and telling the stories ...

from WeeziesBooks

I read this "Rules for Old Men" on my Kindle for one of my book club selections and I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Although these was sadness reading this story, is was very well done. An old man, Robert MacIver, having lost his wife falls into a deep depression when thinking about his future lif...

from Cheryl_in_CC_NV

How can a book about an old man dying be exhilarating? How can a book that seemingly has every character Pouncey's ever thought of crammed into just over 200 pp. be quiet & lovely? How can those few pages cover at least four separate stories and still be subtle? Pouncey distills the essence of ev...