When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss - Brossura

Morrison, Blake

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ISBN 10: 0312427093 ISBN 13: 9780312427092

Casa editrice: Picador, 2008

Riassunto

The critically-acclaimed memoir and the basis for the 2007 motion picture, directed by Anand Tucker and starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent

And when did you last see your father? Was it last weekend or last Christmas? Was it before or after he exhaled his last breath? And was it him really, or was it a version of him, shaped by your own expectations and disappointments?

Blake Morrison's subject is universal: the life and death of a parent, a father at once beloved and exasperating, charming and infuriating, domineering and terribly vulnerable. In reading about Dr. Arthur Morrison, we come to ask ourselves the same searching questions that Blake Morrison poses: Can we ever see our parents as themselves, or are they forever defined through a child's eyes? What are the secrets of their lives, and why do they spare us that knowledge? And when they die, what do they take with them that cannot be recovered or inherited?

When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss has also been published as And When Did You Last See Your Father?

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Blake Morrison is a memoirist, poet, playwright, and novelist. He lives in London.

Product Description:

Morrison's memoir of the life and death of his father was one of the best-reviewed book of 1995, and promises to be an enduring classic of family literature--a book that explores the deepest emotions of being a father and a son. "Mr. Morrison holds up before our gaze a small but vivid piece of reality, bringing it close enough to touch".--New York Times Book Review.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0312427093
• ISBN 13: 9780312427092
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 228