The opening of a door
Subtitle: a novel
By: by George Davis.
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Published: 1931
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Description: "Davis depicts the events surrounding the death of a Canadian patriarch, grandfather of a family retired some years prior from small-town Canada to a Chicago apartment. In the weeks following the funeral, which fills the first quarter of the book, the cast of struggling adult children who had been living with the elders is introduced and then gently vivisected. Half-wit daughter, desperate pushing-40 daughter, drunkard son, bachelor floozy-hunting son, slightly aimless 18 year old grandson, and finally the estranged gay son paying all the bills: each is introduced, given a turn narrating, and gets into it with the others."--Amazon.
Notes: "First edition."