middle-aged men

George Babbitt, a successful middle-aged businessman living in 1920s Ohio, is shocked when his best friend is convicted of murder.

Still haunted by his experiences at the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one year as a child, Dan Torrence has settled in New Hampshire to try to escape those and other ghosts of his past. When he meets Abra Stone, a twelve-year-old girl who shares Dan's gift of "shining," and discovers that a tribe of traveling paranormals called True Knot want to steal her power by slowly torturing her to death, he becomes determined to save the child.

Aaron, a middle-aged man ripped apart by the death of his wife Dorothy, is gradually restored by her unexpected appearances--in their house, on the roadway, in the market--helping him to live in the moment and to find some peace.

Frank Bascombe's career in real estate is thriving and his life finally seems to be on the right track, but when he is faced with marital and medical crises, he must find a new way to navigate the challenges of life without endangering everything he has worked for.

At age fifty-nine, Harold Snow knows that death is creeping closer than ever, and his new post as boatswain aboard a decrepit tanker carrying a lethal cargo of chemicals tests his courage and endurance as he embarks on a dangerous quest to steal a black-market fortune.

As a series of increasingly bizarre events alter the perfect world of Soviet agent Anatoly Sukhanov, he begins to question the decisions he made more than twenty years ago that lead him away from his artistic lifestyle into a career that thrives on censorship.

Divorced and retired, Tony Webster reconsiders his life and his place in the world after his childhood friends return and he is presented with a mysterious legacy.

Fredrik Welin, having abandoned his career as a surgeon following a terrible mistake, has lived for years on an isolated island, but his life takes an unexpected turn when Harriet, a woman he once loved, shows up decades after he left her and demands he fulfill an old promise to take her to a forest pool he visited as a youth.

Behind his hipness and attitude, Julian Donahue is going through an emotional crisis that started when his two-year-old son died of a freak infection. His wife, Rachel, reacted by vigorously cheating on him; Julian, meanwhile, went impotent. But his potency returns one night in his Brooklyn apartment as he listens to a CD by rising Irish singer-starlet Cait O'Dwyer. As his interest in her music and career grows into a full-blown obsession, Julian meets washed-up rocker-turned-painter Alec Stamford (who harbors a few of his own bizarre yearnings), and Julian is propelled to do more than mill around in the back of crowds at Cait's performances.