Dad Had A Bad Day: A Novel

Dad Had A Bad Day: A Novel

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Headshot Meets John Cheever In This Darkly Funny, Deeply Moving Portrait Of What Happens When A Sad Dad Reconnects With A Passion From His Past.When Ned Finds His Old Slazenger Tennis Racquet Buried In The Garage, He Unearths A Part Of His Former Self. Having Recently Lost His Job, His Sole Duty Is To Watch Over Their SixYearOld Son While His Wife Works. On A WhimAnd Without His WifeS KnowledgeNed Joins His Childhood Tennis Club With A Secret Credit Card, Where He Finds Life Outside The Realm Of Sad Dad Domesticity. He Becomes The Captain Of A Local MenS Rec League Team, Reconnects With His Old Hitting Partner And Former Tennis Prodigy, Roland, And Commits His Whole Sad Self To Building A Winning Team. But When Roland Disappears, NedS Search For His Friend Threatens To Consume The Path To Glory, The Relationship With His Son, His Marriage, And His Mind.A Meditation On Fathers And Sons, Male Friendship, And The Psychic Pressures Of An Individual Sport, PolitanoffS Novel Sits Beautifully Alongside The Dark Comedy Of Iris Murdoch And The Masculine Angst Of John Cheever, With A Style All Its Own. Funny, Poignant, And Deeply Relatable, Dad Had A Bad Day Explores Our Desire For Structure, The Emotional Limits Of Domestic Life, And The Unbelievably Potent, Powerful, Intoxicating Feeling Of Winning.

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