The Matter with Morris
CBC Books | | Posted: March 20, 2017 1:43 PM | Last Updated: November 9, 2018
David Bergen
When Morris Schutt, a prominent newspaper columnist, surveys his life over the past year, he sees disaster everywhere. His son has just been killed in Afghanistan and his newspaper has put him on indefinite leave; his psychiatrist wife, Lucille, seems headed for the door; he is strongly attracted to Ursula, the wife of a dairy farmer from Minnesota; and his daughter appears to be having an affair with one of her professors. What is a thinking man to do but turn to Cicero and Plato and Socrates in search of the truth? Or better still, call one of those discreet "dating services" in search of happiness? But happiness, as Morris discovers, is not that easy to find. (From HarperCollins Canada)
- 6 lessons David Bergen has learned from spending 25 years as a writer
- David Bergen on Mennonite food and literary tattoos
- David Bergen wins the 2018 Matt Cohen Award, in celebration of a writing life
From the book
Morris Schutt, aged fifty-one, was a syndicated journalist, well liked and read by many, who wrote a weekly column in which he described the life of a fifty-one-year-old man who drove a Jaguar, was married to a psychiatrist, played pickup basketball, showed a fondness for Jewish novelists, suffered mildly from tinnitus, had sex once or twice a week depending on how much wine he and his wife drank, and who cared for his mother, a hypochondriac and a borderline narcoleptic.
From The Matter with Morris by David Bergen ©2010. Published by HarperCollins Canada.