内容简介：
When Jim O'Brien loses the only job he has ever had, he discovers that he may also be helpless to save his marriage and home. Forced to take menial jobs to survive, his complete devotion to an exquisitely beautiful but mentally handicapped daughter and precocious son soon becomes a weapon his wife wields against him as she strives for her own independence. Despair drives Jim to a series of extreme acts. His life of quiet desperation is examined in heartrending detail as he spirals out of control, an all-too familiar occurrence in a world of bottom-line corporate greed and societal indifference.