"Hungarians Fiction France." . . "Translators Fiction." . . "England" . . "England." . "Mothers and sons Fiction." . . "Sohn." . . "2001." . . "Courage." . . "Germany (West)" . . "Self-perception Fiction." . . "Courage Fiction." . . "France" . . "Self-perception." . . "Dramatists Fiction." . . "Paris (France)" . . "Versagen." . . "Lyrik." . . "Actors Fiction." . . "Mutter." . . "Sterben." . . "Terminally ill parents Fiction." . . "Englisch." . . . . . . . . . . . "Belletristische Darstellung" . "Belletristische Darstellung"@en . "Psychological fiction"@en . "Psychological fiction" . . "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en . "Advance copies (Publishing)" . . . . . . . . . . . . "Romans (teksten)" . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . "Electronic books" . . . "\"It is the summer of 1997. In England, Alec Valentine is on his way home to care for his ailing mother, Alice, a task that only reinforces his deep sense of inadequacy. In San Francisco, his older brother Larry prepares to return as well, knowing it will be hard to conceal that his acting career is sliding toward sleaze and his marriage is faltering.\"--Jacket." . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . . . . . "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)" . . . "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en . . . "As Alec Valentine and his brother Larry return to England to care for their ailing mother, Laszlo Lazar, whose play Alec is translating, finds that he cannot stop thinking about past mistakes." . . "Oxygen"@en . "Oxygen" . . . . . . "Domestic fiction" . "Domestic fiction"@en . . . . . . . . . "Oxygen : a novel"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Large type books"@en . . . . . . . . . "During the summer of 1997, the year of the comet, four people reach a turning point: Alice Valentine, who lies gravely ill in her West Country home; her younger son, still searching for a sense of direction; his brother, fighting to keep his acting carrer and marriage afloat; and Laszlo Lazar, who leads a charmed life of exile in Paris yet is plagued by his memories of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. For each the time has come to assess what matters in life, to grapple with sex, love, morality and destiny. And all will take part in an act of liberation - though not necessarily the one foreseen."@en . . . . . . .