Mr. Death is a ghost story. The narrator, Robert Fraser, is struggling with writing some stories, which are interwoven with her past and her present. From time Fraser tries to come to terms with both his brother's death, that the idea of \u200b\u200bhis own mortality. The novel, which is set against a series of scenarios ranging from Toronto in rural Canada, from London to the Shetland Islands, from New York to Scotland, describes a process of psychological recovery of the past and peace with the idea of \u200b\u200bdeath. But this also means for the protagonist to recover a relationship with life, wife, children, the world around him. In the end, the reader will recognize in the stories of Simpson, who is asked to donate sperm, and Dunbar, an enigmatic visitor around Dublin, fragments that shed light on the human journey of the protagonist himself.
Canadian by birth, Graeme Gibson was born in 1934 and lives in Toronto with his wife, writer Margaret Atwood. He has published novels Five Legs (1969) and Perpetual Motion (1982), before deciding in 1996 not to write more novels.
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