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John Burnside recalls the failed relationship with his father, in the first of his trilogy of exquisite memoirs He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in Corby, somewhere between the bar and the cigarette machine. A foundling; a fantasist; a morose, threatening drinker who was quick with his hands, he hadn’t seen his son for years. John Burnside’s extraordinary story of this failed relationship is a beautifully written evocation of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father’s world: men defined by the drink they could take and the pain they could stand, men shaped by their guilt and machismo. A Lie About My Father is about forgiving but not forgetting, about examining the way men are made and how they fall apart, and about understanding that in order to have a good son you must have a good father.
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A Lie About My Father, John Burnside
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- Released
- 2025
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Burnside
- Publisher
- Vintage (EN)
- Released
- 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN13
- 9781529962888
- Series
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- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Family, Autobiographies & Memoirs, British Literature, England, Alcohol
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
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- John Burnside recalls the failed relationship with his father, in the first of his trilogy of exquisite memoirs He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in Corby, somewhere between the bar and the cigarette machine. A foundling; a fantasist; a morose, threatening drinker who was quick with his hands, he hadn’t seen his son for years. John Burnside’s extraordinary story of this failed relationship is a beautifully written evocation of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father’s world: men defined by the drink they could take and the pain they could stand, men shaped by their guilt and machismo. A Lie About My Father is about forgiving but not forgetting, about examining the way men are made and how they fall apart, and about understanding that in order to have a good son you must have a good father.