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Love and Glory
A middle-aged television employee goes through a period in his life when everything, both work and private, seems to fail.
Willie Armstrong, a television producer, returns from a research trip to New York to find that he has been demoted, politely, by the company he works for. His wife provides no great support. His contemporary from university days, the already highly successful actor Ian Grant, seems to be headed for further glory: Ian's Broadway existence begins uncomfortably to contrast with Willie's dwindling fortunes, and the contrast is only pointed up when they discover that they love a girl in common, Caroline.
Willie's speciality is the production of obituaries, but he finds that his role as celluloid recording angel begins to collide with the expansive lifestyle that Ian celebrates, and Willie discovers, to his dismay, that he is constructing, from these mundane conflicts, his own obituary, a gravestone for a diligent life.
Willie Armstrong, a television producer, returns from a research trip to New York to find that he has been demoted, politely, by the company he works for. His wife provides no great support. His contemporary from university days, the already highly successful actor Ian Grant, seems to be headed for further glory: Ian's Broadway existence begins uncomfortably to contrast with Willie's dwindling fortunes, and the contrast is only pointed up when they discover that they love a girl in common, Caroline.
Willie's speciality is the production of obituaries, but he finds that his role as celluloid recording angel begins to collide with the expansive lifestyle that Ian celebrates, and Willie discovers, to his dismay, that he is constructing, from these mundane conflicts, his own obituary, a gravestone for a diligent life.
251 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 1984
About the author
Melvyn Bragg
131 books147 followersMelvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, FRSL, FRTS (born 6 October 1939) is an English author, broadcaster and media personality who, aside from his many literary endeavours, is perhaps most recognised for his work on The South Bank Show.
Bragg is a prolific novelist and writer of non-fiction, and has written a number of television and film screenplays. Some of his early television work was in collaboration with Ken Russell, for whom he wrote the biographical dramas The Debussy Film (1965) and Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1967), as well as Russell's film about Tchaikovsky, The Music Lovers (1970). He is president of the National Academy of Writing. His 2008 novel, Remember Me is a largely autobiographical story.
He is also a Vice President of the Friends of the British Library, a charity set up to provide funding support to the British Library.
Bragg is a prolific novelist and writer of non-fiction, and has written a number of television and film screenplays. Some of his early television work was in collaboration with Ken Russell, for whom he wrote the biographical dramas The Debussy Film (1965) and Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1967), as well as Russell's film about Tchaikovsky, The Music Lovers (1970). He is president of the National Academy of Writing. His 2008 novel, Remember Me is a largely autobiographical story.
He is also a Vice President of the Friends of the British Library, a charity set up to provide funding support to the British Library.
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