Recensione:
Praise for Dadland:
#1 nonfiction bestseller in the UK
"Celebrated as 'Lawrence of Burma' and 'the Mad Irishman,' Carew was the youngest officer ever to be awarded a Distinguished Service Order . . . This chiaroscuro of dad-as-hero and dad-in-decline patterns a book which is as much about love and family as allies v axis . . . It’s a book about a singular man. Even near the end of his life, Tom managed to charm and astonish . . . [An] original, moving book." Guardian (UK)
Energetic. . . Carew’s vivid narrative takes readers briskly through the horrors and excitement of war, portraying Tom as a vigorous, charismatic soldier fully in his element . . . Carew’s evocative blend of biography and memoir maintains a warmly clear-eyed tone while taking the full measure of dysfunctional and disappointed lives . . . A scintillating portrait of Britain’s Greatest Generation at war and uneasy peace.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"One of the most vivid books I have ever read about the cut and thrust of family life, its best of times and its worst of times . . . A rich and stunning achievement, a feat of imagination that sews together many parallel true stories. Above all, it is a labour of shining daughterly love." Sunday Express (UK)
A fascinating mix of military history and family memoir.” Times (UK)
Dazzling . . . An unforgettable portrait of a maverick father who is in the process of forgetting everything, including the exploits for which he was awarded a Croix de Guerre. But it’s so much more besides: a detective story, a family history, a thrilling tale of derring-do, and the most distinctive and affecting memoir I’ve read since H Is for Hawk.” Bookseller (UK), Book of the Month”
Dadland is part family memoir, part history book, and is compelling and moving from start to finish . . . [Keggie Carew] hasn’t just uncovered the facts about her father’s war; she’s inhabited it imaginatively with him, for him, and has recorded it vividly as his own grip on memory wavers and fails . . . Carew’s funny, fascinating and unflinching tribute to her father is a portrait of a complex man: not just a war hero but a flawed husband; not just a Jedburgh but her incorrigible and much-missed dad.” Financial Times
An astonishing biography . . . Dadland mixes intimate memoir, biography, history and detective story: this is a shape-shifting hybrid that meditates on the nature of time and identity . . . Tom Carew was a razzle-dazzle character, larger than life and anarchically self-invented . . . For all its vigour and comic zest, Dadland is a careful and tender discovery that patiently circles around a man who spent his life mythologizing and running away from himself.” Observer (UK)
Outstandingly good.” Esquire (UK)
A moving memoir-cum-biography.” Irish Times (UK)
An intoxicating blend of history, memoir and biography.” BBC Radio Bristol
In Dadland, [Keggie Carew] tells [her father’s] story . . . with poignancy and humour.” Vogue (UK)
How lovely to discover a book that makes one seize friends by the lapels and implore them, Read this’ . . . On one level, Keggie Carew’s Dadland is a wartime adventure story. On another, it is an investigative memoir, a history of how one family’s fortunes can be sunk. But above all it is a portrait of a loveable, charming, mischievous old rascal named Tom Carew . . . [A] wonderful book.” Literary Review (UK)
I was so absorbed and moved by Dadland I haven’t been able to read anything else. It is beautifully written deft and funny and so tender but I have also come away knowing more about history, more about dementia, more about men, more about daughters, more about love, family, sheds, diaries, an inquisitive mind and peeing in plastic bottles. I loved it.” Rachel Joyce, New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
I loved Dadland for its tenderness, humour and candour . . . It has also taught me something deeply moving about tolerance, and about love.” Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways
Dadland is a wonderful, haunting and beautifully written memoir unlike any other I have ever read . . . It is a profoundly rewarding and life-affirming book of many layers and a deeply moving homage to that extraordinary generation who lived, loved and fought through the Second World War. An absolutely stunning book.” James Holland, author of The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941
L'autore:
Keggie Carew has lived in London, West Cork, Barcelona, Texas, and New Zealand. Before writing, her career was in contemporary art. She has studied English Literature at Goldsmiths, run an alternative art space called JAGO, and opened a pop-up shop in London called theworldthewayiwantit. She lives near Salisbury, in the UK.
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