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Author: Matthew Quick | Language: English | ISBN: B00DB3D5NW | Format: PDF, EPUB

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From Matthew Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, comes The Good Luck of Right Now, a funny and tender story about family, friendship, grief, acceptance, and Richard Gere—an entertaining and inspiring tale that will leave you pondering the rhythms of the universe and marveling at the power of kindness and love.

For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. His redheaded grief counselor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mom, Saturday mass, and the library learn how to fly?

Bartholomew thinks he’s found a clue when he discovers a “Free Tibet” letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother’s underwear drawer. In her final days, mom called him Richard—there must be a cosmic connection. Believing that the actor is meant to help him, Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life, writing Richard Gere a series of highly intimate letters. Jung and the Dalai Lama, philosophy and faith, alien abduction and cat telepathy, the Catholic Church and the mystery of women are all explored in his soul-baring epistles. But mostly the letters reveal one man’s heartbreakingly earnest attempt to assemble a family of his own.

A struggling priest, a “Girlbrarian,” her feline-loving, foul-mouthed brother, and the spirit of Richard Gere join the quest to help Bartholomew. In a rented Ford Focus, they travel to Canada to see the cat Parliament and find his biological father . . . and discover so much more.

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• File Size: 550 KB
• Print Length: 355 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0062298747
• Publisher: Harper (February 11, 2014)
• Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
  
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00DB3D5NW
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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With "The Silver Linings Playbook," author Matthew Quick took troubled characters and treated them with immeasurable compassion, respect, and humor. Despite enormous obstacles, the novel's central protagonist was possessed of an unwavering hope and a unique world view. This balance of the eccentric with the mundane, of an infused sadness with a laugh-out-loud boisterousness, showcased a book that was deceptively simple yet packed a surprisingly powerful punch. With the Oscar winning film adaptation of that novel having raised Quick's popular profile, I'm sure that his other endeavors are being more closely scrutinized. And his newest tale, "The Good Luck of Right Now," covers some of the same themes as its famous predecessor. Told through the eyes of Bartholomew Neil, the story relies on a narrator that is often unaware of the big picture that surrounds him. At times he can be frustratingly obtuse, at others charmingly clueless. Having been sheltered from life, as well as saddled with certain mental and physical limitations, Bartholomew is left to rebuild his world after his mother passes and his cozy existence of co-dependence comes to an end. At first, he may not seem up to the task. But don't count Bartholomew out just yet!

In an unusual narrative device, the book is structured as a series of letters to Richard Gere. Yes, that Richard Gere. An isolated Bartholomew turns to Gere because he was the favorite actor of his recently deceased mother. In her waning days, she even refers to her son as Richard and he draws strength and confidence by assuming some of the traits of this alter ego. Even as I write this sentence, I know that sounds incredibly precious and false and yet Quick made me believe it. Not only believe it, I suppose, but care.

At thirty-nine, Bartholomew Neil still isn't ready to leave his mother's nest, but when he loses her to cancer, he's left with no other choice. His once-stable, once-routine world—of just him, his mother, and God—crumbles to pieces when one of his biggest role models, Father McNamee, consequently denounces himself from the Catholic church, and in turn, becomes more than just a religious father figure to Bartholomew, by becoming a human being.

Convinced that his other beloved role model, Richard Gere, is watching over him now that God no longer is, Bartholomew begins a one-way correspondence; these letters are what make up the entire novel. This fantasy relationship he creates is the only thing that still connects him to his deceased mother, considering she was Richard Gere's biggest fan, and the sole belief that he is guiding Bartholomew as if they were old friends, leads to unexpected discoveries and profound self-inquiry.

The unique narrator is what stood out to me, first and foremost. It is not a shock that Quick would write a protagonist who isn't quite normal—one who clearly suffers from a mental disorder, but internally, is the same as any and all of us: deeply, imperfectly human. Bartholomew isn't a grand hero, no, but he glows with sincerity and is a compassionate, warm character; his brilliantly observant and self-recognizing tone will capture the hearts of readers just as that of The Silver Linings Playbook did.

Matthew Quick is skilled not only at providing perspective, but also at conveying the necessity of pretending—not out of delusion, but out of self-preservation—and the sheer magic of believing—whether through faith or through faithlessness.

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