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Zusatztext 'It takes quite a talent to make a reader smile and cry at the same time. This is exactly what Freddy Taylor manages to do in Don't Put Yourself on Toast . This book is light and deep, funny and sad, but, essentially, full of love.' Informationen zum Autor Freddy Taylor was brought up next to the ugly white roundabout in Wandsworth, London. Now 32, he lives in Stockwell and works as a creative director at an advertising agency. This is his first book. Klappentext When Freddy was 21 years old, his dad, a larger-than-life, successful TV producer, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a particularly aggressive type of brain cancer. Collected and expanded from Freddy's journal at the time and interspersed with entries from his stepmother's medical notes, Don't Put Yourself on Toast is a record of the last two years of his father's life and Freddy's attempt to hold his family together using all the fun he can muster. Written in sparse prose, Freddy bares all in startlingly vivid snapshots: from the entertaining antics of 'the most inappropriate wine gum toss competition ever attempted in a hospital ward'; to the comic-tragic deciphering of his father's muddled riddles as his speech disintegrates; to painful moments of regret and self-loathing, squandering precious time watching films when he could have been asking his father those questions he knows he would want the answer to someday. This bittersweet memoir demonstrates how humour, in the face of death, is as pure a strength as any. Vorwort A bittersweet, coming-of-age memoir about losing a parent and the power of laughter to hold a family together. Zusammenfassung A bittersweet, coming-of-age memoir about losing a parent and the power of laughter to hold a family together.
