Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The Rest of Our Lives" by Ben Markovits. (Summit Books) The road has a way of revealing what it wants. In film, in literature, in ...

The travelogue is a unique subgenre of American literature: A man goes on a journey, spiritual and physical, across America’s sprawling highways, and his trip is documented — either as fiction or ...

Tom Layward, the hero of Ben Markovits’ novel The Rest of Our Lives, is at a crossroads. The younger of his two children is leaving for college at Carnegie Mellon, a seven-hour drive from their home ...

Tom Layward, the narrator of Ben Markovits’ Booker finalist novel, “The Rest of Our Lives,” doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do. He’s middle-aged (55) and on leave from his job as a law professor ...

The midlife crisis remains a rich vein for novelists, even as its sufferers skew ever older. In Ben Markovits' 12th novel,The Rest of Our Lives -- which was a finalist for this year's Booker ...

Ben Markovits’s novel The Rest of Our Lives follows the protagonist Tom Layward as he struggles to resolve a midlife crisis, not one in the usual sense of the term but rather as defined by ...

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