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Driven to extremes: The Rest of Our Lives, by Ben Markovits, reviewed

Haunted by his wife’s affair, a middle-aged professor leaves his home and job to take a road trip across America. But will his act of emancipation bring him peace?

Jude Cook
Ben Markovits.  Kat Green
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 17 May 2025
issue 17 May 2025

In a break from his tetralogy about the Essinger family, and following on from The Sidekick (a kind of Humboldt’s Gift with basketball), Ben Markovits now takes us on a road trip across America. The Rest of Our Lives explores marital breakdown, betrayal, the empty nest and a myriad mid-life malaises, including life-threatening illness.

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