A quiet, somewhat melancholy book that tells of a man's search for family through time and space. Loss, love and family all intertwine to give a picture of life in the Great Depression.FROM THE PUBLISHERIn the depths of the Great Depression, Jack Radey left his home in Toronto to seek a better li...
Patrick's Bed THREE I When I was twenty-two or twenty-three, my Uncle Jim, Dad's younger brother, took me to a Legion Hall that he frequented for a couple of beers and a game of pool. I liked Jim. He drove my father crazy. In his youth, Jim had gotten into trouble with the law and with hi...
when I woke, the stiffness of the muscles in my back, arms, legs all told me what I already knew—that I had done more than I should have. Jack was gone. Gazing at the window ledge above me, I touched the wall beside me where I lay on the floor. Solid. Real. The shower attachment that would be f...
I have never seen anything like this. It is eating away his jaw, his mouth, his face, and he just sits there and looks at me when I visit— can barely talk. He could not afford to stay in the hospital and since there was little they could do for him there at any rate, he has returned home where al...