Epigraph

How is it that a book can be read several times and never lose its luster? Could it be that there is something "timeless" within the covers of this book? Well I think so, and there are damn few of us who could write anything close to such a painful rant on the loss of one's wife, the mother of the love of one's life. If you knew Gordon Lish you would know he is NOT a sexist. He LOVES women! He HONORS women! That is why he gets so many of them. But it is sad when you know the years they spent with this sickness and disease called Lou Gehrig's. And it is heartbreaking to know the suffering this family went through together. And just the fact that this Gordon Lish had the heart to write this novel gives prudence to the claim of his greatness. Joyce knew, Eliot knew, Jack B. Yeats knew. Time for some of us to find out.