by David Cook · Diogenes · tapa dura · ISBN 9783257060201
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«Der Zweitbeste» is David Cook's novel published by Diogenes in hardcover in 1994 (304 pages, in German).
Graham Holt, 37 and single, has sold stamps to neighbors from behind a counter for years. His true desire is to adopt a son. James Lennards, aged ten, needs a father, but for James, Graham will always be second best.
The original English work is titled «Second Best» (1991); this German Diogenes edition is from 1994.
For fiction readers seeking stories about adoption, fatherhood, and family relationships.
David Kenneth Cook was a British author, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for the screen adaptation of his 1978 novel Walter, and was the first presenter of the UK TV programme Rainbow. He was born in Preston, Lancashire. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, from 1959 to 1961. His first role was in the 1962 film adaptation of A Kind of Loving. Thereafter, he worked on both stage and television. He began to write novels and also for television in the early 1970s.
