Darke
By: Rick Gekoski
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781786892287
Subjects: Old age; Death; Conduct of life; Reminiscing in old age; Social isolation; Families; Fiction
Description: Dr James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his 'coming of old age' journal; he eats little, drinks and smokes a lot. Meditating on what he has lost - the loves of his life, both dead and alive - he tries to console himself with the wisdom of the great thinkers and poets, yet finds nothing but disappointment. But cracks of light appear in his carefully managed darkness; he begins to emerge from his self-imposed exile, drawn by the tender, bruised filaments of love for his daughter and grandson.