the good luck of right now by matthew quick

Bartholomew, he writes to Gere, is concerned about her - she shows up with bruises every once in a while. She’s still in school, but living with a much older doctor who’s paying her tuition.

We learn that he’s got a grief counsellor named Wendy. A lonely guy who’s trying to figure things out, he takes Richard Gere as his ‘confidant.’ So his life unfolds in a series of letters to Gere. When she was on her death bed “Richard?” was the last thing she said.īartholomew takes this as a sign.

He helped her along by pretending to be “Richard” when they were eating supper or just sitting around talking. While going through her drawers, he comes across a letter from her favourite actor, Richard Gere, “outlining the atrocities committed against Tibet by the Chinese government”.Īs it turns out, toward the end of her life, when dementia was setting in, his mother kept calling him Richard. Well, he did - she recently died and he’s having trouble coming to terms with her death. Read on and you’ll understand why.īartholomew Neil is closing in on 40 years old and still lives with his mother. So it’s probably handy that the directors of Little Miss Sunshine, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, have reportedly already signed up to direct it as a movie. Quick has a love of quirky characters and he introduces a whole new cast in this book. The Good Luck of Right Now is Matthew Quick’s latest book - he’s perhaps most famous for the novel The Silver Linings Playbook, made into a movie starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro.

The good luck of right now by matthew quick