The Old Neighborhood

"Steven Robbins has achieved everything he thought he wanted, and nothing, not any of it has turned out to be what he thought it would be. As a young man, he left his neighborhood in the Bronx to be a success. He has become one of the best advertising copywriters in the field; he has a beautiful, successful wife and two lovely daughters. But his relationship with his career-minded wife is less a marriage than a corporation. His children are independent and growing away from him. His career has turned into a monotonous game of being clever. Steven Robbins embarks on a personal journey that has relevance for us all, and in his pas and in his heart, he learns about life as it should be and about himself as he should be. This is a novel for everyone who has ever left a place to be someone else, to do something else. It is a story of contemporary success and contemporary marriage, and of what we lost along the way for our contemporary values. It is an important novel, poignant, human, hilarious, and wonderful. As he has done in Oh,God! and Kramer vs. Kramer, Avery Corman offers truth about the times in which we live that moves us and gently gives us insight into our own lives." This is from the dust jacket of this book.