My Father's Fortune
Winner of the PEN/Ackerley PrizeAward-winning playwright and novelist Michael Frayn makes the family memoir his own (The Daily Telegraph) as he tells the story of his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad, an asbestos salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness; through the setback of a son as bafflingly slow-witted as the father was quick on his feet; through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life. As Peter Kemp wrote i…
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- ISBN: 978-1-250-00234-1
- EAN: 9781250002341
- Produktnummer: 19411182
- Verlag: Picador
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 286 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.6 cm 385 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 385
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