Father and Son - A memoir about family, the past and mortality

On 11 June 2011, three days short of his sixth-ninth birthday, Jonathan Raban suffered a stroke which left him unable to use the right side of his body, wheelchair-bound in a rehab facility and endlessly frustrated by his newfound physical limitations. As he resisted the overbearing ministrations of the nurses helping him along the road to recovery, Raban began to reflect not only on the measure of his own life but the extraordinary story of his parents'' early marriage, conducted for three years by letter while his father fought in the Second World War.>

Product details

• Authors: Raban Jonathan, Jonathan Raban, Raban Jonathan
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.09.2024
• EAN: 9780330418416
• ISBN: 978-0-330-41841-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Diaries, letters & journals, Norfolk, HISTORY / Military / World War II, Rome, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers, HISTORY / Africa / North, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, Autobiography: literary, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Tunisia, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Autobiography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military, c 2010 to c 2020, c 2010 to c 2019