When He Was Still Young - Paperback

by H. B. West (Author)

He's a raconteur of rivers and roads, a man who has packed a Range Rover with wine and flown across oceans to chase trout and solitude. But home is where the unglamorous reckonings happen: a hospital room, a screened-in porch, a lover who announces she's leaving. Faced with betrayal, sudden illness in a friend, and the unraveling of rituals that once anchored him, Bart must decide what to fight for-and what to let go.

From the ragged edges of Cool Spring Farm to the grand salons of Victoria and the storm-torn paths of the English Lake District, this is a map of a life in fragments: boyhood games with Jingles, a teenage wreck that haunted him, boyhood parades and small-town heroes, and the quiet terror of being left behind. Racing across continents and into memory, Bart searches for a final reconciliation: with love, with grief, and with the places that made him.

Taut and tender, WHILE HE WAS STILL YOUHG is a portrait of a man who must choose whether to cling to the life he remembers or to step, at last, into what remains.