The last days of Ptolemy Grey

ISBN: 9781101441336 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
ISBN: 110144133X (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
ISBN: 9781101445334 (electronic bk. : Adobe EPUB)
ISBN: 1101445335 (electronic bk. : Adobe EPUB)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource (277 p.)
Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2010.

Summary: Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. Then Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that restores his mind, and he uses his last days--shortened now by the medical experiment--to delve into the mystery of the recent drive-by shooting death of his great-nephew, Reggie.