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Lingua: inglese
Editore: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017
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It's 1986. Fred Sadler has just died of old age. Seventy years after he marched off to WWI.As his ghost hovers near the ceiling of the nursing home where he's died, Fred listens in dismay as the arrangement of his funeral falls to his loathed sister-in-law, Viola. Fred's ghost follows his family, eavesdropping on his own funeral, and agonizing over his inability to set the record straight.Did old Uncle Fred really suffer from shell shock? Why did his family lock him away in the Whitby Hospital for the Insane? Couldn't they have done more for him?Fred remembers his life as a child, his family's hotel, the War, and the mental hospital. But his memories clash with Viola's version as the family gathers one rainy October night to pay their respects. Fred's Funeral is a perfect Book Club choice.Get yours today.
Codice articolo 00064834108
- Titolo
- Fred's Funeral
- Autore
- Sandy Day
- Editore
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2017
- Condizione
- Good
- Rilegatura
- Paperback
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 10
- 1979556164
- ISBN 13
- 9781979556163
Fred Sadler is dead—and his sister-in-law is making a mess of his legacy.
Fred expects death to bring peace. Instead, he finds himself hovering near the ceiling of his room at York Manor, watching his prim and pious sister-in-law Viola rummage through his belongings and rewrite his life. According to Viola, Fred was a war-damaged recluse, a harmful oddball. But Fred knows he lived a very different story.
As he drifts unseen through his own funeral preparations, Fred watches in growing outrage as relatives misrepresent his life, misunderstand his silence, and misplace his war medals. Viola, self-righteous and ever suffering, is already shaping the family narrative—and Fred isn’t having it.
But why is he still here? Why can’t he pass into the lush, welcoming afterlife just beyond reach? And what unfinished business ties him to the mortal world?
Witty, sharp, and unflinching, Fred's Funeral is a darkly comic exploration of memory, legacy, and the stories families tell about those they've lost. If you've ever wondered how you'll be remembered—or misremembered—Fred Sadler's story will haunt you long after the final page.
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