Charles Baxter: Blood Test, Gebunden

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"In this ... take on love and trouble in the American heartland, Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday School teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by the results of a blood test. [The author] brings us a gradually building rollercoaster narrative, and a protagonist who is impertinent, searching, and hilariously relatable. From his good-as-gold, gentle girlfriend to the excessively macho subcontractor guy his ex-wife left him for, not to mention his well-raised teenage kids--now exploring sex and sexuality--the secondary characters in Brock's life all contribute meaningfully to the drama, as increasing challenges to his sense of self and purpose crash over him"--