Bittersweet: Confessions of a Twice-Married Man

by Philip Lee

Sometimes the life we have constructed needs to fall apart before we can begin the process of making something better. After his first marriage ended, Philip Lee found himself living with his younger brother in an old fisherman's house by the sea, trying to restore some order to the wreckage of his life. It was a dark year of rain-bucket showers, blowtorch espresso, and abandoned renovation projects. They were bachelors in every sense of the word...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864924631
• ISBN13: 9780864924636
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Bittersweet = all sweet for the reader! A MUST read

For anyone holding love and family as high values in their life, "Bittersweet" will move you profoundly. I find it is very rare that an author is able to tell an autobiographic tale with the level of candor, intimacy, insight, and humor with which Lee tells his story... An absolute delight to read. Lee has a unique journalistic writing style - he keeps things so simple, and easy to read, but at the same time, the reader knows they're not sifting through fluff. This is high quality prose - elegant and pure. Lee paints a picture of Canada's east coast no reader will soon forget, and all the while, his story takes us all across North America, even abroad to China and Greece... beautiful imagery throughout. True wisdom laces every page of this book, and never a drop of ego or over-self-reflection... To Philip Lee, if you're reading this, Bravo. To potential readers, buying this book is a decision you will not regret.