A Lie About My Father: A Memoir - John Burnside - Książki - Graywolf Press - 9781555974671 - 1 maja 2007
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A Lie About My Father: A Memoir

John Burnside

A Lie About My Father: A Memoir

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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