On Christmas Eve a family has gathered around the table for the obligatorydinner. The father once an imposing figure who terrorized his children hassuddenly fal... » 

On Christmas Eve a family has gathered around the table for the obligatorydinner. The father once an imposing figure who terrorized his children hassuddenly fallen prey to Parkinsons. Yesterdays tyrant is now trapped inside adisintegrating body. Andre the eldest child is nearing 60. He has never lovedthe father who lied too much abused too much manipulated too much. But stillthis holiday week Andre cannot help but be moved. How should he behave towarda parent to whom all pleasures are forbidden? Should he struggle to prolong theold mans life or help him end it? Around the dinner table opinions aredivided. At once intimate and universal A Good Death is a deeply movingvoyage into the essence of humanity. In it Gil Courtemanche once again asksreaders to confront the question that lay at the heart of his first novel Whylive? Why die? «