Elliott Rockett (The Year of Getting to Know Us)
Year
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2008
Plot
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Christopher Rocket escaped his sheltered life as the only child of a golf-obsessed father and eccentric mother in Florida to become a successful freelance writer in New York. His apprehension about taking his relationship with his beautiful and intelligent girlfriend, Anne, to the next level makes it painfully obvious that he has some childhood issues to reconcile. When his estranged father suffers a stroke on the golf course, Christopher returns to Florida to reconnect with the man whom he never really knew as a child--a task that is made easier by the fact that his father's ailing health has put him in a vegetative state of disconnection. Deftly moving back and forth between Christopher's less-than-normal '70s childhood and present-day adulthood his inability to engage with others is elucidated.
