A Lie About My Father - Couverture souple

Burnside, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1555974678 ISBN 13 : 9781555974671

Editeur : Graywolf Press, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Burnside John

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Non-Fiction Book of the Year.

Revue de presse

"Compelling and profoundly moving... This exquisitely written memoir is, literally, a journey into a heart of darkness - a darkness here lit up by beauty and truth" (Independent)

"An exceptional book... A brilliant feat of sympathy and imagination" (Financial Times)

"Burnside's prose is a delight...Memoir this good illuminates something larger than itself. It is an exercise in understanding compassion and forgiveness" (Melanie McGrath Sunday Telegraph)

"[An] exquisitely written memoir" (Paul Bailey Sunday Times)

"Destined to become a classic of Scots childhood... A beautiful read, but also a brutal one" (Scotland on Sunday)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Graywolf Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1555974678
• ISBN 13: 9781555974671
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336