"Malarkey is a kind of post-modern, May-December story that deals with the relationship between cancer stricken, divorced and single dad Malcolm Malarkey (68), an Irish English professor, Oxford grad, who teaches at a liberal arts college in the fictional town of Citrus City, California and Liliana Liliano, a late-30s Italian-American who's both a widow and childless. Fed up with the corporate life, Liliana quits and returns to begin a graduate degree where she meets and falls in love with Malarkey, a curmudgeon with little respect for accepting what's politically correct and though he loves Liliana, her desperation to get pregnant is only one of a myriad of professional and domestic obstacles they need to overcome."--Back cover.