Death has settled down around Michael’s life “like a pair of grim bookends.” His coping mechanisms of excessive hedonism and first-class avoidance had always proven highly effective, until he is faced with his own imminent demise. Plagued by guilt and anxiety, he soon realizes that he “has been lovingly courting the very thing that he fears the most.”
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