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A Dignified Exit (2000)

by John J. Asher(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Brazos River Press

review 1: I really loved almost everything about this book. In some ways it was a bit predictable but it was gentle, warm, and life affirming. Basically, a man, an artist, who knows he has terminal cancer leaves his home, friends, and family to move to Mexico in order to die alone. In a "twist of fate" he meets a young woman who has just been left penniless by her fiance. She ultimately has an extraordinary influence on him. Along the way, she teaches him the importance of friends and family even though she herself doesn't really have friends or family upon whom to rely. This was a lovely, gentle book that I would whole-heartedly recommend to anyone who likes to read contemporary fiction involving relationships.
review 2: I think the question this book attempts to a... morenswer is when is your life really over? Monroe Colson gets a diagnosis of cancer that will kill him in a year. Thinking to spare his family (mostly estranged) and friends, he takes off to Mexico to spend the rest of his days painting. He gives up his existence as a vital member of a close group of friends in his small town to seek out solitude and to face death alone. But then he meets Angelina and, against his will, develops a new friendship that is possibly the closest of his life. There are some twists and turns at the end that I don't want to give away, but the reader is left questioning when a person's life really is over and if it is possible to make an intelligent decision about it.I loved the book with it's slow, dreamy pace and it's wonderful descriptions of Mexico. The end is maybe a little trite but not enough to ruin the rest of the book. less

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