Frank and Maisie: A Memoir With Parents

Rating:
Summary: Frank-ly Dissappointing
Review: If you're a fan of things Sheed, skip this book and go directly to the senior's wonderful "The Church & I."

The volume listed here is a son's recollections of life with his parents. Anecdotes abound, and you'll recognize the Sheed whos words you so appreciate in his son's descriptions. But there is really nothing new here in that regard.

It's all pleasantly written, in a tone mimicking but not matching his father's. Ostensibly a tribute, the book unfortunately ends with an irksomely self-aware apologia for Junior's embrace of modernity and cafeteria Catholicism. Not surprising from one of his generation, until he tries to suggest his father might have been traveling the same current emotionally in his later years. Talk about an exercise in projection. A well-intentioned but in that regard flawed-effort. Frank Sheed's legion of fans will likely think he deserves much better.