The first is the threat that Frankie's place, which is in fact a summer home that is shared with and jointly financed by Frankie's siblings, might someday be put on the market, robbing the author of the only true home he has ever known. There's a running gag as well about Frankie's old Volvo and its various mishaps on the road and in auto shops, and there's a detour into an apparent hit-and-run and the "perp" who refuses to confess.īut there are two real encroachments that Sterba means for us to pay attention to. Just how the site is evolving and how the construction crews are banging is detailed at length later in the book we get some gossip on the new neighbor's financial history. Likewise the book provides frequent updates on the unfortunate construction project under way at a neighbor's just down the road from Frankie's place, a site that is quickly dubbed Jurassic Park.
We are told how many mice interrupt dinner parties, how many are "KIA" by traps, and how many drown in an oozing trashcan of decomposed sugars. But, as any Pentagon major would advise, I had to demonize my foe before I attacked." "I already had an economic justification for war. Time and again we encounter those mice, read pest-control books over Sterba's shoulder and watch him arm himself for the battle: There are those darned, furry, pellet-pooping critters, for one thing, which supply Sterba with one of the book's primary plot lines as he seeks to first coexist with and then dominate their kind.
Of course, this being Planet Earth and Life in General, things do encroach upon the peaceable kingdom on Mt.
We could work and play, read and cook, walk and swim, and be with each other just far enough beyond the edge of the world's clamor to feel momentarily out of harm's way."
"There was a deep comfort in knowing that once we tucked ourselves into this tiny corner of the woods by the sea we were all by ourselves.
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