Lie About My Father

Informationen zum Autor John Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2023, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry. He died in 2024. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: John Burnside
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.03.2007
• EAN: 9780099479536
• ISBN: 978-0-09-947953-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Burnside Biographies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Erinnerungen (div.) s.a. Einzelperson, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, Memoirs, Family & relationships, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Autobiography: writers, Biography: writers