Frankfort has lived a life of sober responsibility, fulfilling his duties as a father and a husband and enduring the necessary indignities of corporate life at work as a sales manager. He is now in the last throes of his lung cancer and has a handful of months left to live. Against the background of Frankfort's struggle to assert his freedom and dignity as he doggedly continues to live up to his responsibilities, the narrator recalls episodes from his own past: How death was dealt with in the old country, his native land of Algeria.
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