Letter to My Father

A Memoir

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Having wounded his father with a hurtful letter when he was twenty-three, Tom Couser felt somewhat responsible for his later mental collapse. When his father died, Tom found personal documents that revealed facets of his father’s life of which Tom had known nothing. Too traumatized to grieve properly, much less to probe his father’s complicated history, Tom boxed the documents and stored them—for over thirty years. When he finally explored his father’s rich legacy, he achieved a belated reconciliation with a man he had not really known.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-08-09
Mått:151 x 228 x 14 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:222
Förlag:University Press of America
ISBN:9780761869580

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Sanna berättelser inom Biografier
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

G. Thomas Couser is professor emeritus of English at Hofstra University and author of six previous books, including Memoir: An Introduction, published by Oxford UP in 2012.

Recensioner i media

It may be unfair that an accomplished scholar who has written some of the most significant investigations of the power inequities and ethics of life writing (Recovering Bodies, Vulnerable Subjects, Signifying Bodies), as well as an introduction to the genre as skilled as his On Memoir, should also be capable of writing authoritative, complex life writing itself. But G. Thomas Couser has done just that with Letter to My Father: A Memoir.

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsPrologue: In My Father’s Closet: Life, Death, and LettersPart One: The Father I (Thought I) Knew1. After the War: Manchester, New Hampshire 1947-19542. Suburban Life: Melrose 1954-19683. The Empty Nest: 1964 to 19734. McLean Patient, 19735. Widower: 1973-19756. Endnotes: A Life in Scraps, 1974-75Part Two: Part Two: The Father I Never Knew (But Now Know)7. Mill Town Lad: 1906-19308. “In Aleppo Once”: Syria 1930-339. First Love: Rody10. Illicit Love: Lena11. Manly Love: Bob and the YMCA12. Edgar: “To you, I shall return a Prodigal”13. George Saylor: Gay Blade14. Marriage, War, and FamilyEpilogue: Grief Interrupted