St. Patrick's bed

the long version

"Green takes up the story of Leo Nolan, who went to Ashland, Kentucky, in search of his lost uncle, Jack Radey, and in finding him, also found a wife, Jeanne, and her young child, Adam. Fifteen years have passed, and Leo and Jeanne are trying to have another child. And Adam, now a young man about to leave his teens, feels the need to trace and visit his true father, who abandoned his pregnant mother before he was born."--Jacket.