Through the Keyhole

Through the Keyhole is a narrative that springs from the mind of Billy Dekeyser, a poet in the final throes of Alzheimer's. Though to the outside world he seems hardly able to speak or hear, his interior world is alive with a fury of feelings, ideas, observations and memories as he struggles to give meaning to the approaching end of his vivid life, and find his way into Eternity. Told in Billy's unique voice, alternately slangy and fiercely literate, Through the Keyhole is witty, deeply moving, and highly original in style.
"I wrote this very personal novel to try to understand how a powerful, passionate mind confronts its own inevitable demise," Whiteson says. "In the end the reader should come away with a renewed sense of both the peril and glory of one's own humanity."


Genre: General Fiction