Love and Glory

A middle-aged television employee goes through a period in his life when everything, both work and private, seems to fail.Willie Armstrong, a television producer, returns from a research trip to New York to find that he has been demoted, politely, by the company he works for. His wife provides no great support. His contemporary from university days, the already highly successful actor Ian Grant, seems to be headed for further glory: Ians Broadway existence begins uncomfortably to contrast with Willies dwindling fortunes, and the contrast is only pointed up when they discover that they love a girl in common, Caroline.Willies speciality is the production of obituaries, but he finds that his role as celluloid recording angel begins to collide with the expansive lifestyle that Ian celebrates, and Willie discovers, to his dismay, that he is constructing, from these mundane conflicts, his own obituary, a gravestone for a diligent life.

Categories: Contemporary Fiction