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.>

About the author

Jonathan Raban was the author of over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, Soft City, Waxwings and Surveillance.

Over the span of six decades, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, and the Governor’s Award of the State of Washington. His work appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Harpers, The New York Review of Books, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, The London Review of Books, and other magazines.

In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he lived with his daughter until his death in 2023.

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: 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