Simon's Night

By: Jon Hassler

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Synopsis: "Simon Shea, a retired professor of English at a small Minnesota college, has begun to forget things and has negligently set fire to his kitchen. Fearing the onset of decrepitude, he voluntarily commits himself to terminal residence at a private rest home," the Norman House. "It's a serious mistake..." At the house, "he finds himself cooped up with an Indian who want to go on one more goose hunt, a farmer obsessed with memories of great droughts, and a gaggle of women who giggle all the time...." ... "but upon Simon's error," of choosing to live in the House, "hinges one of the most delightful novels I have read in years, a work of manifold virtues, felicitous, intelligent, and very funny.... Full of anecdotes with scenes and characters of tremendous comic vitality."