My Year as a Clown: A Novel
by Robert Steven Williams
When his wife of twenty years leaves him for another man, Chuck Morgan is abruptly forced back into the single lifestyle. Middle-aged and helplessly adrift, Chuck longs for the life he thought he had. Now he worries he’ll never have a relationship again, that he could stand in the lobby of a brothel with a hundred dollar bill plastered to his forehead and still not get laid.
My Year as a Clown is the story of one man’s fumbling, funny, emotionally raw year of relearning to live on his own, a year that presents a minefield of new issues to navigate, including a lost job, awkward dates, even more awkward sex, and the spiritual advice of an offbeat, marijuana-smoking rabbi. As his life starts to unravel, Chuck must overcome his phobias and find his place in the unfamiliar world before him.
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