A Lie about My Father
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 astonishing memoir Lie About My Father 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…
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- ISBN: 978-1-55597-467-1
- EAN: 9781555974671
- Produktnummer: 2620627
- Verlag: US Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 277 S.
- Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.2 cm 398 g
- Gewicht: 398
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John Burnside
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