Our Man
a novella
Published on 29. December 2025
Book
Hardback
100 pages
978-1-7379274-4-0 (ISBN)
Description
Three days in the life of a middle-aged man contemplating a change of profession while caring for his aging father, visiting his hospitalized brother, and catching up with a fascinating but disturbingly misogynistic childhood friend. All this while our unnamed narrator, our man, our hero, "our representative though worrisome mensch," drifts into a challenging flirtation with a beautiful college girl he's met in a cafe. Originally drafted in 2012, Our Man inspired some of the themes treated in the film Where to Land in 2025.
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Person
Hal Hartley is the author of the novel, Our Lady of the Highway (2022), the poetry collection, Mischief (2024), and the writer and director of numerous films, the latest of which is Where to Land (Grand Prize, Lisbon Film Festival, 2025). He is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des lettres of the Republic of France and an alumnus of the American Academy in Berlin.