Synopses & Reviews
Compared to some, Henry Powell's life has been lucky, if inauspicious. Yet Henry is impossibly stuck, unable to reconcile the dreams and expectations of his promising youth with the reality of the unassuming, vaguely dissatisfied clothing store clerk he has become.
As weeks turn into months and months into years, the shop becomes Henry's only window to the world, where he marks time by the milestones of his former classmates' lives.
But his day-to-day measured existence inadvertently conceals a fracture that has caused the disintegration of his family, one that will ultimately reveal the Henry that might have been.
Synopsis
Henry Powell, a thirty-one-year-old salesman at a men's clothing store, spends his days fantasizing about an exciting life away from his small New England town, but when the store goes out of business on September 10, 2001, Henry experiences drastic changes.
Synopsis
When his job at a clothing store becomes his only window to the world around him, Henry Powell, unable to reconcile the expectations of his youth with the dissatisfied man he has become, discovers what might have been when his family starts unraveling around him. 200,000 first printing.
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