Bing Crosby's Last Song

Bing Crosby's Last Song is a novel by the American writer Lester Goran set in 1968 in the Oakland neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Bing Crosby's Last Song
First edition
AuthorLester Goran
Country USA
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPicador
Publication date
1998
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages288
ISBN0-312-19540-0
OCLC38964139

It tells the story of Daly Racklin, a Pittsburgh attorney who on a spring day learns from his doctor that he has one year to live. Racklin is a de facto voice of a dying Irish neighborhood, and he is also torn by his father's shadow and ambitions of his own.

Sources

  • Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2008.
gollark: I simply do not exercise, except when I do.
gollark: Also eternal youth/relatively good health, but I figure you would basically have to have that for immortality anyway.
gollark: That's higher than average life expectancy basically everywhere, and for much of it you are an old person and unable to do much.
gollark: I mean "immortality" as in "will not randomly die of old age and such", not "live for an infinite amount of time", which would have problems.
gollark: Ideally I would just be immortal, but who knows how that's likely to go.


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