Palimpsest: A Man's Life in San Francisco - Tapa blanda

Frank Molinari is an Italian-American, a devout Roman Catholic, a married man with children from a previous marriage, and a successful investment advisor living in San Francisco. As he faces the changes of getting older the breakdown of the body, the increasing closeness of death, and a very different world from that in which he was raised his irritation with many of the changes that have transpired in his world is seen through the kaleidoscope of his conversations with friends and of the memories he has about his friendships and lovers. Charles Fracchia s Palimpsest is a welcome addition to the scarcity of fiction that examines what seems to an older person to be the golden years of his youth.