
Oppen Porter thinks he's dying. (He's not.) From his hospital bed, with tape recorder in hand, he unspools his tale for the benefit of his unborn son, the tale of his forty-day journey from innocence to experience, from self-described "slow absorber" to man of the world...


With its blend of fool's wisdom and deeply felt humanity, Panorama City is heir to Marilynne Robinson's Gilead and Steve Martin's The Jerk.
From his deathbed*, twenty-eight-year-old Oppen Porter--an openhearted, bicycle-riding, binocular-toting,...