The Connoisseur of Love
Gary Forrester

	General Fiction Price: $24.99 Availability: mid January 2012 Format: Softcover, 152 pages, A5 ISBN: 978-1-877577-72-7 Add this book to your shopping bag

About the Book

Peter Becker, a German immigrant, is not entirely at
home in his adopted city, but there’s no place on earth
he’d rather be. Neither Peter nor Wellington will last
forever, and each is acutely aware of this bittersweet
reality.
An eccentric public servant, estranged from his
family, Peter stalks Wellington’s second-hand shops and
cafés, cycles its streets, battles on its tennis courts, and
performs his music — never quite connecting with
anyone or anything.
The Germans, as you might expect, have a word
for Peter’s underlying sense that all is not well:
Torschlusspanik — literally, ‘gate-closing panic’ — or
in his case, the angst of growing older as life’s options
narrow. Not that long ago, he seemed to have all the
time in the world. Now his world is shrinking, and
grace has not arrived.

About the Author

Gary Forrester is the author of two previous novels,
Houseboating in the Ozarks and Begotten, Not
Made; a book of verse, The Beautiful Daughters of Men;
and a memoir, Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn. Before
moving to New Zealand he worked in Australia, the USA
and South America as an academic, legal aid lawyer, and
professional musician/composer. He now makes his home
in Wadestown on Te Ahumairangi hill, and lectures in
ethics at Victoria University of Wellington.