A novel, written in diary form, about a professor dying of cancer and trying desperately to pack his erudition into his son, who prefers video games and Coca-Cola to opera. The diary entries also detail a lifetime of failed--and yet tender and amusing--relationships.
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"The father-son relationship is the warm center of the book, while women--mothers and lovers--loom large, swirling around the two in a tornado of conflicting demands and confusing desires. And yet, against the ever-unfolding disaster, sexual and familial love gives meaning to Buckley's life and death." -- SMALL PRESS REVIEW, March 1996
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Hugh Fox is a professor of American Thought and Language, a specialist in pre-Columbian Amerindian religion and a prolific writer. He teaches at Michigan State University, does research in Latin America and publishes fiction and non-fiction with houses big and small. His many titles include the novel
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