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Jon Foyt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857760212 ISBN 13: 9781857760217

Publisher: Book Guild Sussex, 1995

Young American millionaire Toledo Squires has a goal of assembling a team of experts who will transform Albania into a twenty-first century capitalist free market.

Having sold his mutual fund analysis company to America's largest brokerage firm, he feels that for him it's "pay-back" time to society, and so he chooses Albania on which to bestow his altruistic Yankee know-how.

Yet this multi-layered roller-coaster of a novel spanning the high desert of New Mexico to the cities of London, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Tirana carries a tender humorous edge. It's also the story of Toledo's grandmother, Grace Templeton - it's her tale of autumnal love in a retirement home where the octogenarian inhabitants are more at home around the poker table than in any communal dining room. And in a denouement of the most ironic kind, it is Grace who is swept along by this wave of idealism and transformed from the queen of the cards to the Queen of Albania.

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From the Publisher:

Following on the huge successes of such classic PBS comedies as "Waiting for God" and "One Foot in the Grave," the most unlikely of British icons have emerged triumphant. Over-sexed, over-active, and over-eighty, the sardonic comic figures have liberated a nation's elders from the stranglehold of stereotype. Now comes an American octogenarian heroine whose defiance of the constraints of old age matches that of her British soul mates. Grace Templeton will capture your heart, too.

From the Author:

The country of Albania deserves the world's compassion, especially because Serbia's military offensive against the ethnic Albanians in neighboring Kosovo is so repugnant. As novelists we want to stimulate dialogue with our fable.

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