Goose Music(1st Edition) A Novel by RichardHoran Paperback, 275 Pages, Published 2001 by Steerforth ISBN-13: 978-1-58642-017-8, ISBN: 1-58642-017-8
"After a 20-year exile, Leslie, son of doughnut magnate Jacob Siconski, returns home for his estranged father’s funeral and the reading of his will. It seems the old man has left all of his $27 million estate to his daughter Mary and his reclusive, agoraphobic older son Charlie, who has vanished without a trace. When a badly beaten corpse found near the Circus World Museum is identified as Charlie, Leslie sets out to discover the truth b ..."
"The World’s Room explores one family’s experiences with grief. When Erich, the 17-year-old son of Willy and Lorna Hoffman, commits suicide in 1969, his younger brother asks to serve his memory by taking on his dead brother’s name. Told two decades later by the surviving Erich, the book, written in memoir style, is the true story of that renaming, and of how the love for the missing can replace the love for the living. Covering ground fr ..."