English prof David Shields meditates on aging, mortality, and his outrageous 97-year-old dad in The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead.
Most Dysfunctional Moment
He compares the length of his ''boringly, frustratingly average'' member
with his ''markedly more well-endowed'' pop's.
Lowdown
An intriguing father-son tale is trapped beneath a mountain of literary
quotations and medical factoids (''Arteriosclerosis can begin as early as
age 20,'' etc.). C+
Add your comment
The rules: Keep it clean, and stay on the subject or we might delete your comment. If you see inappropriate language, e-mail us. An asterisk * indicates a required field.