| Like Prufrock with his thinning hair and meager hopes, Pop Thorndale is a character who, in his very ordinariness, holds up a mirror in which we recognize our fears and follies, our dreams and desires. Pfefferle deftly chooses the moments that illuminate a life, and he renders them in clear and accurate language, transforming the ordinary voice into something pretty like the first chords in any Supertramp song. " --Beth Ann Fennelly, Author of Tender Hooks and Open House
Pop Thorndale is our contemporary American Everyman ironic, mid-life, overweight, suburban, trying, as he ages, to find some meaning in what he knows has been an unremarkable and unheroic life. --From the Foreword by Patricia Fargnoli |
