A Lie About My Father - 9781555974671
Un libro in lingua di John Burnside edito da Graywolf Pr, 2007
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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 this astonishing memoir 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.
The lie in the title of this astonishing memoir 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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: A Lie About My Father
- Lingua: English
- Autore: John Burnside
- Editore: Graywolf Pr
- Collana: Graywolf Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Maggio '07
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Argomenti : Fathers and sons Great Britain Biography Authors, Scottish 20th century Biography
- Pagine: 277
- Peso gr: 385
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 19
- ISBN-10: 1555974678
- EAN-13: 9781555974671