Epigraph (Lish, Gordon)

A man whose wife has died after seven years of illness sits in her deathbed to write a series of letters that disclose his loosening grasp of reality and demonstrate the twisted recriminations of a man bent by his painful loss. Gordon Lish gives us more spleen than sense in this troubling tract, and that is the point of his story. Indulgent in style and often profane in expression, readers looking for bracing missives of insanity have found their book; more pedestrian readers be forewarned.