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Beschreibung
A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child.

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.

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.

A Lie About My Father 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.

'Memoir this good illuminates something larger than itself. It is an exercise in understanding, compassion and forgiveness' Sunday Telegraph

Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child.

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.

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.

A Lie About My Father 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.

'Memoir this good illuminates something larger than itself. It is an exercise in understanding, compassion and forgiveness' Sunday Telegraph

Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Übersetzungstitel: Lügen über meinen Vater
Inhalt: 323 S.
ISBN-13: 9780099479536
ISBN-10: 0099479532
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 545048
Autor: Burnside, John
Hersteller: Random House UK
Vintage, London
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 200 x 132 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: John Burnside
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.04.2011
Gewicht: 0,244 kg
Artikel-ID: 101927246

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