A genuine tour de force - a novel written in defence of a life lived passionately. An old man reflects upon his life, his marriage, friendships, love affairs, and the enragingly separate existence of his spoiled only son. He has had a full life, and now, in his later years, retired, his second wife getting on his nerves, love affairs a distant memory, he has a few things to get off his chest ... One man's hilarious, heartrending ruminations, addressed to a son he cannot understand, make up this extraordinary first novel from the author of ART.