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A Lie About My Father John Burnside

A Lie About My Father par John Burnside

A Lie About My Father John Burnside

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Résumé

Tells the story of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father's world: men defined by drink they could take and the pain they could stand, men shaped by their guilt and machismo. This book examines the way men are made and how they fall apart, about understanding in order to have a good son you must have a good father.

A Lie About My Father Résumé

A Lie About My Father John Burnside

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.

A Lie About My Father Avis

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 John Burnside

John Burnside is amongst the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs have won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. In 2011, Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry. A judge for the Booker prize in 2015, he is a professor in the School of English at Saint Andrews University.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR001392114
9780099479536
0099479532
A Lie About My Father John Burnside
John Burnside
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Vintage Publishing
20070301
336
Winner of Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Award: Non-Fiction 2007
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