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Men From The Boys (2010)

by Tony Parsons(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0007327765 (ISBN13: 9780007327768)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

HarperCollins

series

Harry Silver

review 1: Having really enjoyed Man and Boy and Man and Wife, I expected a lot from this third part to the Harry Silver trilogy. And as a page-turner, it delivered; I read it in about three sittings.Yet, at the same time, I can't help feeling slightly disappointed. The old fire seems to have gone out; maybe it was Harry's fecklessness that made him more interesting, but the calmer, 40-year-old Harry of this final episode seems a different animal. There's enough of the old Pat to keep you interested in his welfare despite his morphing into a vaguely stroppy teenager, and Gina seems to drift in and out of the narrative without much purpose. The Ken/Singe Rana pairing was more interesting, recalling my own grandfather's few tales of his experiences at Monte Cassino during WW2 - if half... more of the stories told by Singe Rana are true, it wouldn't surprise me that my grandfather didn't mention such events himself.So, Men from the Boys delivered in places and under-delivered in places. I enjoyed it - and would recommend Harry Silver fans to read it - but I can't help feeling that it could have been so much more.Still, the fact that my copy was personally signed for me by Tony Parsons at the Hay Festival is something!
review 2: This novel is the first Tony Parson's that I read. It's actually the third installment of the trilogy, the previous two are Man and Boy, and Man and Wife.As I hadn't yet read the other two, so my review is based solely on the one book that I'd read.The story is about Harry Silver who was a single parent who had remarried and live with three children. The plots of the story mainly involves Harry's relationship with his ex-wife concerning their matters and their son, Harry's relationship with his wife, Harry's struggle with the growth of his son, and also Harry's relationship with the friends of his late father, apart from Harry's daily job at a broadcasting company. The story is easily relatable or connectable with the readers as the problems that the characters endured are mostly problems that people had everyday. I' d say, it's a real-life fiction.The writing style is good & the level of the language used is grea less

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