This novel combines photographs, letters, images, and questions, questions, questions to mythologize our dying moment. Too, the reader is drawn by several mysteries: the elusive Miss Wright, a primary school teacher who fills the dying man's thoughts; the competition between two brothers; the role the father played in World War II-and not least, just who is dying? The father? A brother? Or some part of all three, and of the grandsons too? The juncture of sensuality and death is disarmingly achieved by the novel's seemingly grammar-school diction. Stunning photographs and evocative images of mountains underline the building myth associated with our final moments.