Description: Thomas Mistler is an internationally celebrated advertising whiz who is about to achieve a fabulously lucrative merger for the company that bears his name. He has thought of himself as a happy man, but when his doctor tells him he is terminally ill, he decides to surrender unconditionally, avoid life-prolonging treatment, and has a strange elated feeling that he has been set free. Telling neither his wife nor his grown son of his illness, he decides to indulge himself with ten days in Venice, the city he loves most in the world, allowing himself to drift for the first time. A striving young woman who hopes to get ahead in the advertising business by making love to him turns out to bore him. When he meets the woman who was his unrequited love in college, she rejects him. More and more he thinks of his father and his uncle, pillars of the Establishment, who bequeathed to him his "genetic puritanism, " of his son whose love he has only barely salvaged, of his wife, once beautiful and suitable, now half-scorned by him. Has he discovered himself at last?

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