Bent Northrop Memorial Library

This book, writes Wetherell, "is an attempt to come to terms with the central dilemma of one person's life: that writing in early middle age, describing as best I can the things, people, and landscapes that I love the most and wish most passionately to endure, I am revealing myself to be as extinct as a dinosaur, dead as a dodo, relic of another era..." So begins this extraordinary personal narrative, in which W.D. Wetherell tries to record and celebrate...