THIS DEBUT novel from the prize-winning short-story writer takes the form of a series of expansive inner monologues by a recently widowed 84-year-old farmer, Maurice Hannigan. Over the course of a fateful night, he sits at the bar of his local hotel, where he drinks several elegiac toasts to the most influential people he has… Read more »
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