A Lie about My Father

Burnside, John

ISBN 10: 1555974678 / ISBN 13: 9781555974671

Edité par Graywolf Press, 2007

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Synopsis :

My father told lies all his life and, because I knew no better, I repeated them. Lies about everything, great and small, were the very fabric of my world.

The lie in the title of astonishing memoir Lie About My Father is born of shame. Traveling around upstate New York in the nineties, John Burnside can't bear to share the truth about his father during a casual conversation with a hitchhiker. He covers his uneasiness with a lie. It felt natural to do so.

His father, abandoned as a baby on a stranger's doorstep, created a masterful web of deceit to erase this unbearable fact. John, even as a child, represented everything that was wrong with the world and became the recipient of his father's selfhatred in the form of enraged violence, and worse, petty, cruel belittlement. Growing up in the tough working-class neighborhoods of Scotland and later England, John learned to lie back to his father and, later, about his father.

À propos de l'auteur: JOHN BURNSIDE has published five works of fiction and nine collections of poetry, including The Asylum Dance, which won the 2001 Whitbread Poetry Award.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : A Lie about My Father
Éditeur : Graywolf Press
Date d'édition : 2007
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : As New
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket