Rules for old men waiting
Subtitle: a novel
By: Peter Pouncey.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Older men -- Fiction.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Casualties -- Fiction.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction.; World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Fiction.; Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction.; Military historians -- Fiction.; Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Storytelling -- Fiction.; Widowers -- Fiction.; Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Retired to his home of Cape Cod, Robert MacIver, a Scottish former professor of history and rugby player who had commanded a destroyer in the British Navy during World War II, creates a list of rules by which he will live out his final days.