Biblio Files: talking about books

Life's a Funny Proposition, Horatio by Barbara Garland Polikoff Horatio Tuckerman doesn't like his name. His father, a professor, had been very fond of Shakespeare, and had named his son Horatio. But Horatio can't be mad at his father, because his father is dead. His father had stopped smoking with the help of a hypnotist, but it was too late; his father had died of lung cancer anyhow. His grandfather O.P.(for Old Professor) lives with Horatio and his mother and their dogs. We never meet O.P.'s dog in this book, because Mollie is missing at the very beginning. Horatio and his friend Erik find Mollie, dead, by the river. Mollie's loss depresses O.P., and it is up to Horatio to cheer him up.
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