Epilogue: A Memoir - Brossura

Will Boast

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ISBN 10: 184708821X ISBN 13: 9781847088215

Casa editrice: Granta, 2015

Riassunto

When Will Boast's father dies he is alone in the world: an American with distant English roots, orphaned, and derailed by grief. Everything he thought he knew about his parents unravels when he discovers he has two half-brothers living in England. In exquisite prose Will Boast sets about piecing together a new sense of himself, attempting as he does to understand, forgive and heal the mistakes of his father's past.

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Recensione:

It is during these unspoken moments that the author deftly captures the fleeting intimacy between father and son The power of Epilogue comes in Boast s brave and candid recounting of his losses and how this accumulated grief reshapes the author and his beliefs of what can make up a family. --S. Kirk Walsh

'I won't spoil it by telling you everything, because the way this story is told is important. Will is rocked by tragedies, one after another.' --William Leith, Evening Standard

'Even deep into his book's final revisions, further revelations come to light, and as [Boast] crosses out things he previously held as certainties, it's reassuring to see how hard it is to place that final full stop on a human life.' --Victoria Segal, the Guardian

L'autore:

WILL BOAST was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. His short story collection, Power Ballads, won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for a California Book Award. His fiction and essays have appeared in Best New American Voices and the New York Times, among other publications. He has been a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University and a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia in the UK.

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• Editore: Granta
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 184708821X
• ISBN 13: 9781847088215
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288