A Lie About My Father

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Beschreibung

<p><b>A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child.</b><br><br>He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in Corby, somewhere between the bar and the cigarette machine. A foundling; a fantasist; a morose, threatening drinker who was quick with his hands, he hadn't seen his son for years.<br><br>John Burnside's extraordinary story of this failed relationship is a beautifully written evocation of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father's world: men defined by the drink they could take and the pain they could stand, men shaped by their guilt and machismo.<br><br><i>A Lie About My Father</i> is about forgiving but not forgetting, about examining the way men are made and how they fall apart, about understanding that in order to have a good son you must have a good father.<br><br><b>'Memoir this good illuminates something larger than itself. It is an exercise in understanding, compassion and forgiveness' </b><i>Sunday Telegraph</i><br><br><b>Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Non-Fiction Book of the Year.</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780099479536

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 130 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Verlag / Hersteller

Vintage Publishing