Morgan's Passing

Author  Anne Tyler
Morgan's Passing

In this modern classic, a man unhappy with his life and armed with a box of costumes, seeks escape and reprieve by assuming fake identities.

Morgan Gower is bored of the tedium of his ordinary life: of his job as manager of a run-down hardware store; of his wife; of his "industriously dull" daughters; of his mother; of his sister. But Morgan's secret escape lies in a box filled with costumes, filled with everything from a fake beard to Napolean's tricorne to Daniel Boone, all of which provide an outlet away from his life and into the identity of someone who is assuredly not Morgan Gower.
     When Morgan meets newlywed puppeteers Leone Meredith and his heavily pregnant wife, Emily, he is…

$21.00
June 12, 2018
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