It is an engrossing tale of an old man who has spent his years developing a form of eccentricity, an individual life style without regard to the favorable opinion of others. Confronting the reality of death, he realizes that his thinking may not yet be finished, and he must deal with the dilemma that he may not be the person he really wants to be and has not yet done all that he needs to do. A reader will delight in this insightful novel as an absorbing literary journey.