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Jan 22, 2019jackhwolf rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This starts with the funeral of the protagonist and then traces back through his life in the first person centered around his childhood, marriages, with some concentration on his old age especially his health challenges. It is honest and real and a in a short book culls down the lifetime of a man into the real important meanings of a lifetime. It is a little somber dwelling on the infirmities and mistakes of a lifetime but it holds together and is constructed well. I don't see the brilliant wit or crazy humor of some of his Jewish contemporaries like a Bashevis Singer or Leonard Cohen, but it is carefully constructed, unostentatious, and rings true, perhaps more relatable to from someone of my 70 year old vantage.