Stories of Fatherhood (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics

Stories of Fatherhood (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

Stories of Fatherhood gathers more than a century ofÂ classic short stories about having,Â becoming, loving, and losing fathers.
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Frank Oâ€™Connorâ€™s hilarious tale of a tiny boyâ€™s war against his paternal rival in â€œMy Oedipus Complexâ€ sits beside Ann Packerâ€™s touching portrait of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first childâ€™s birth. At the other end of the lifespan, John Updikeâ€™s â€œMy Fatherâ€™s Tears,â€ Jim Shepardâ€™s â€œThe Mortality of Parents,â€ and William Maxwellâ€™s â€œThe man who lost his fatherâ€ bring us face to face with a loss that is like no other.
In between, we encounter a full range of emotions connecting men and their offspring:Â tenderness and devotion, anxiety and incomprehension, admiration and regret. Powerful patriarchs cast a long shadow in Katherine Mansfieldâ€™s â€œThe Daughters of the Late Colonelâ€ and D. H. Lawrenceâ€™s â€œThe Christening,â€ while Edith Whartonâ€™s â€œHis Fatherâ€™s Sonâ€ sheds a more ironic light on the paternal legacy. E. L. Doctorowâ€™s young protagonist, forced to write letters impersonating his dead father, arrives at a deeper understanding of him, while in Helen Simpsonâ€™s â€œSorry?â€ an old manâ€™s hearing aid seems to reveal what his children secretly think about him. Paternal bonds are forged outside biology, too: Graham Swift portrays a man wistfully seeking a substitute son, while Guy de Maupassantâ€™s forlorn waif triumphantly acquires an ideal father. In these twenty stories, an array of great writersâ€”ranging from Kafka, Joyce, and Nabokov to Raymond Carver, Harold Brodkey, and Andre Dubusâ€”offers a wonderfully varied assortment of fictional takes on paternity.

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Country USA
Brand Everyman's Library
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber part_0375712453
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2014-05-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375712456

Country	USA
Brand	Everyman's Library
Manufacturer	Everyman's Library
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	part_0375712453
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2014-05-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375712456

Stories of Fatherhood (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

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