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A Lie About My Father: A Memoir
John Burnside
A Lie About My Father: A Memoir
John Burnside
My father told lies all his life and, because I knew no better, I repeated them. Lies about everything, great and small, were the very fabric of my world.
The lie in the title of this astonishing memoir is born of shame. Traveling around upstate New York in the nineties, John Burnside can't bear to share the truth about his father during a casual conversation with a hitchhiker. He covers his uneasiness with a lie. It felt natural to do so.
His father, abandoned as a baby on a stranger's doorstep, created a masterful web of deceit to erase this unbearable fact. John, even as a child, represented everything that was wrong with the world and became the recipient of his father's selfhatred in the form of enraged violence, and worse, petty, cruel belittlement. Growing up in the tough working-class neighborhoods of Scotland and later England, John learned to lie back to his father and, later, about his father.
336 pages
Media | Książki Paperback Book (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem) |
Wydane | 1 maja 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9781555974671 |
Wydawcy | Graywolf Press |
Strony | 336 |
Wymiary | 3871 × 229 × 224 mm · 390 g |
Język | English |
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