Daddy

by Morris L. Cohen

Jamie Grenne, a handsome forty-year-old history professor, leaves his brilliant and beautiful wife for a red-haired graduate student with a trust-fund, but everything changes after Jamie learns that his wife is pregnant

Genres: Fiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1986

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

This work by Charles Cohen is lighthearted and certainly does give a great look at what can happen to a man facing a midlife crisis. Cohen writes in a crisp and clear style that keeps the work moving at a relatively steady pace. Despite the author's good writing style, I found that I couldn't make a connection to any of the characters, least of all the main character, Jaime Greene. Throughout the novel, he acknowledges that his life is worry free and that he does have it all but that he needs to grow up, and I never saw that happen; it seemed as though he just went through the motions and made empty promises about growing up. In addition, the other characters, such as Ellen (Jaime's wife) were just enablers who never truly followed through on their promises to make Jaime grow up; it seemed that when all was said and done, their bark was worse than their bite and they just went back to enabling his never-ending childhood. I kept reading, hoping that those promises would be delivered upon, but was sorely disappointed; the work's saving grace was its humor. As a writer, this showed me the importance of taking full advantage of a climax point and the importance of actual character growth.

[Ellenjsmellen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Found this old one and dusted it off. So far, it's cute.