Description
| Product ID: | 9780330418409 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Father and Son |
| Subtitle: | A memoir about family, the past and mortality |
| Authors: | Author: Jonathan Raban |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: literary, Diaries, letters and journals, Memoirs, Second World War, Diaries, letters & journals, Memoirs, Second World War, Norfolk, Italy, Tunisia, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 2010 to c 2020 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An extraordinary memoir about family, the past and mortality, and the final work from the peerless Jonathan Raban. <p><b>A <i>NEW YORKER </i>BEST BOOK OF 2023<br><br>'A beautiful, compelling memoir . . . <i>Father and Son</i> is an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension between powerful emotions and carnage on one side, and on the other, the conventional codes of what must remain unsaid. This, Raban's final work, is a gorgeous achievement" – Ian McEwan</b><br><br>On 11 June 2011, three days short of his sixty-ninth birthday, Jonathan Raban suffered a stroke which left him unable to use the right side of his body. Learning to use a wheelchair in a rehab facility outside Seattle and resisting the ministrations of the nurses overseeing his recovery, Raban began to reflect upon the measure of his own life in the face of his own mortality. Together with the chronicle of his recovery is the extraordinary story of his parents’ marriage, the early years of which were conducted by letter while his father fought in the Second World War.<br><br>Jonathan Raban engages profoundly and candidly with some of the biggest questions at the heart of what it means to be alive, laying bare the human capacity to withstand trauma, as well as the warmth, strength, and humour that persist despite it. <i>Father and Son</i>, the final work from the peerless man of letters, is a tremendous, continent-sweeping story of love and resilience in the face of immense loss.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-14 |