by Tony Parsons · Editorial Presença · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722328135
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«Cenas da Vida de um Pai Solteiro» is the contemporary novel by Tony Parsons, published by Editorial Presença in paperback (326 pages, in Portuguese).
Harry Silver is a television producer who sees his life fall apart after an affair: his wife leaves him and puts him in charge of Pat, his four-year-old son. The novel follows his slow and emotional learning curve as a single father, his doubts about his new identity, and his relationship with his own father, in a portrait of fatherhood and family bonds.
First novel in the Harry Silver series, originally published as «Man and Boy» in 1999 and winner of the British Book Award. Portuguese translation by Maria Clara Mira Capitão.
For readers of contemporary fiction and family dramas who value a male perspective on single parenthood.
Tony Victor Parsons is an English journalist, broadcaster, and author. He began his career as a music journalist for New Musical Express (NME), writing about punk music. Later he wrote for The Daily Telegraph, before going on to write for the Daily Mirror for 18 years. Since September 2013, Parsons has written a column for The Sun. He was for a time a regular guest on the BBC Two arts review programme The Late Show, and appeared infrequently on the successor Newsnight Review; he also briefly hosted a series on Channel 4 called Big Mouth.
