num_pages: 72
description: Pop Thorndale, he of limited ambition and modest dreams, finds himself at 50. With no trophies to show for his life, he wonders about the point of it all. Then three things happen in the space of a year, and those events drive him into his basement to write his memoir ("just memory with a little switch of letters.") This faux memoir in poems follows Pop through meditations on family, love, and death, all of it infused with humor and empathy.
language: English
title: The Meager Life and Modest Times of Pop Thorndale
titlecomplete: The Meager Life and Modest Times of Pop Thorndale
ratings_count: 5
publisher: NFSPS Press