Book
1 of 1 Copy Available
- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection
Extinctions
Call Number
- FICTION WILS (CEN)
Edition
First US edition.
Publication Information
Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2018.
Physical Description
356 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary
Professor Frederick Lothian, a retired engineer, world expert on concrete and connoisseur of modernist design, has quarantined himself from life by moving to a retirement village. His wife, Martha, is dead and his two adult children are lost to him in their own ways. Surrounded and obstructed by the debris of his life--objects he has collected over many years and tells himself he is keeping for his daughter--he is determined to be miserable but is tired of his existence and of the life he has chosen. When a series of unfortunate incidents forces him and his neighbor, Jan, together, he begins to realise the damage done by the accumulation of a lifetime's secrets and lies and to comprehend his own shortcomings. Finally, Frederick Lothian has the opportunity to build something meaningful for the ones he loves.