Rules for old men waiting

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A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage. In a house on the Cape older than the Republic, Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of rules by which to live out his last days/5.

A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage. In a house on the Cape "older than the Republic," Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of rules by which to live out his last days.

Advance Praise for Rules for Old Men Waiting “A deeply sensual, moving, thrilling novel that calls for a second and third reading–it is that rich.” –Frank McCourt “This is a wonderful novel of a man’s experience, and it touches every chord: a wholeness to which each incident crucially contributes so that wars and loves and losses, and mortality itself, are lived by the by: 1.

Rules for Old Men Waiting is a thought-provoking read, gentle, and sad in the way a life lived tolerably well but ended, or due to end, is sad. The dialogue in the book, of which there is not much, does not always ring true/5(61). A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage.

In a house on the Cape “older than the Republic,” Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of rules by which to live out his last : Random House Publishing Group.

But I have already made "Rules for Old Men Waiting" sound all high-minded and fancy-pants dull, and Robert MacIver, its year-old roaring Scots narrator, would upbraid me royally for so : Gail Caldwell. A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage.

In a house on the Cape “older than the Republic,” Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of rules by which to live out his last days. Rules For Old Men Waiting (), a novel by British author Peter R. Pouncey, follows eighty-year-old historian Robert MacIver as he waits to die in the house where he nursed his recently-deceased wife, Margaret.

To keep himself busy, he writes a short story set in the trenches of the First World War, while reminiscing about his life. In rugby, if the game is unresolved at the end of regulation play, it concludes in sudden death overtime.

In Peter Pouncey's multilayered debut novel, Rules For Old Men Waiting, it's clear from the opening that regulation play for retired professor and former rugby player Robert MacIver ended when his beloved wife, Margaret, died. Having found himself alone in life's overtime. Editions for Rules for Old Men Waiting: (Paperback published in ), (Hardcover published in ), (Kindle Edition), A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage.

In a house on the Cape "older than the Republic," Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of rules by which to live out his last days.

The most important rule, to "tell a story to its end 5/5(1). RULES FOR OLD MEN WAITING Peter R. Pouncey, Author. Random $ (p) ISBN Pouncey's first book is proof that sometimes greatness comes slowly and in. Get this from a library. Rules for old men waiting.

[Peter Pouncey] -- A small masterpiece with a vast canvas - three major wars of the twentieth century, no less - and a strong emotional charge, this is a taut, moving novel about old men, young men and war, about. Rules for Old Men Waiting contains extended excerpts.

The author has said that these stories were written separately, over 23 years. This might explain the novel’s scattered discontinuity. While Rules for Old Men Waiting may not be structurally sound, the simple, straightforward prose lacks pretense.

The author’s genuine desire to connect. Beyond the Book. This article relates to Rules for Old Men Waiting. Peter Pouncey was born in Tsingtao, China of English parents. At the end of World War II, after several dislocations and separations, the family reassembled in England, where he completed his classical education at boarding school and at Oxford University.

Get this from a library. Rules for old men waiting: a novel. [Peter R Pouncey] -- In a house on the Cape 'older than the Republic', Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of rules by which to live out his last days.

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Although these was sadness reading this story, is was very well done. An old man, Robert MacIver, having lost his wife falls into a deep depression when thinking about his future life.

He lives in a run down house in the countryside/5(17). A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the 20th century and an ever-deepening marriage.

In a house on the Cape "older than the Republic", Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of rules by which to live out his last days. Rules for Old Men Waiting distinguishes itself as a rare first novel in a number of ways.

Some of its more interesting distinctions include the age and pedigree of the book’s author, Peter. A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage. In a house on the Cape "older than the Republic," Robert MacIver, a historian who.

A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage. In a house on the Cape &#;older than the Republic,&#; Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of rules by which to live out his last days.

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1st ed. English Book: Fiction pages ; 22 cm. New York: Random House, Seller Rating: % positive. Advance Praise for Rules for Old Men Waiting "A deeply sensual, moving, thrilling novel that calls for a second and third readingit is that rich." Frank McCourt "This is a wonderful novel of a man's experience, and it touches every chord: a wholeness to which each incident crucially contributes so that wars and loves and losses, and mortality 5/5(1).

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A strong debut about a dying historian—from the year-old former president of Amherst College. Robert MacIver is an year-old war historian, a proud Scot long resident stateside, dying slowly and alone in an ancient house in the woods on Cape : Peter Pouncey. By Peter R.

Pouncey, President and Edwin F. and Jessie Burnell Fobes Professor in Greek (Classics), Emeritus. New York: Random House, pp. $ hardcover. This book is a profound, convincing work that is full of subtleties.

Its old protagonist, in his last days, arranges his life and his writing by a set of rules. If a reader would say this novel is about an old man waiting to die, he would be minimizing the book gravely, since the story has layers upon layers of insight and rich drama as its.

Rules for Old Men Waiting By Peter Pouncey Random House, pp., $ Both the task and blessing of aging is that one has the chance to cast a long light upon the past -- to taste regret, to savor good luck, to bear, finally, the heretofore unbearable loss. Peter Pouncey's elegiac novel is an ode to this sorting and.

Born in China of British parents, educated at Oxford, Peter Pouncey is a classicist and academic who moved to the US in the s and became President Emeritus of Amherst College. He is the author of Rules for Old Men Waiting. Read more.Featured Book of the Month; Past Features.

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The novel is the debut for a year-old author. Pouncey, a former classics professor at Columbia and retired president of Amherst College, began writing Rules for Old Men Waiting in Talk.