It's All Right Now - (P.S.) by Charles Chadwick (Paperback)

About the Book

This novel spans three decades in the life of its narrator, beginning with his complicated relationships with his wife and children, his neighbors, his parents, girlfriends, colleagues and friends, and his ongoing search for moral and practical certainties.

From the Back Cover

Meet Tom Ripple, a man with an uncommon outlook on his common life. Through the vividness of his voice and his growing sense of the sorrow and absurdity of the world, Tom Ripple becomes an unusually appealing antihero, aware of his ordinariness and the limits of his intelligence, with a ribald sense of humor, and a clumsiness in his attempts at emotional connection with others. He is a bewildered everyman navigating his way through modern times.

By turns poignant, funny, heartbreaking, and profound, It's All Right Now is a towering achievement and a singular work of the imagination.

Review Quotes

"Remarkable. . . . A vivid picture of how one unfashionable man can end up touching the lives around him, including the readers' own." - People
"If the assured and diverse characterizations and confident pacing appear to be the work of a lifelong novelist, it is because they are. . . .The writing assumes a richness and even occasional majesty." - The Washington Post Book World
"This novel is huge--in size, ambition, intelligence, and heart." - Jonathan Safran Foer