G. Thomas Couser

Letter to My Father (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Having wounded his father with a hurtful letter when he was twenty-three, Tom Couser felt somewhat responsible for his later mental collapse. When his father died, Tom found personal documents that revealed facets of his father's life of which Tom had known nothing. Too traumatized to grieve properly, much less to probe his father's complicated history, Tom boxed the documents and stored them-for over thirty years. When he finally explored his father's rich legacy, he achieved a belated reconciliation with a man he had not really known.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761869597
• Artikelnr.: 48959615

Autorenporträt

G. Thomas Couser is professor emeritus of English at Hofstra University and author of six previous books, including Memoir: An Introduction, published by Oxford UP in 2012.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Prologue: In My Father's Closet: Life, Death, and Letters
Part One: The Father I (Thought I) Knew
1. After the War: Manchester, New Hampshire 1947-1954
2. Suburban Life: Melrose 1954-1968
3. The Empty Nest: 1964 to 1973
4. McLean Patient, 1973
5. Widower: 1973-1975
6. Endnotes: A Life in Scraps, 1974-75
Part Two: Part Two: The Father I Never Knew (But Now Know)
7. Mill Town Lad: 1906-1930
8. "In Aleppo Once": Syria 1930-33
9. First Love: Rody
10. Illicit Love: Lena
11. Manly Love: Bob and the YMCA
12. Edgar: "To you, I shall return a Prodigal"
13. George Saylor: Gay Blade
14. Marriage, War, and Family
Epilogue: Grief Interrupted