Father Figure - Softcover

Herrin, Lamar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1942515537 ISBN 13: 9781942515531

Publisher: Fomite, 2016

Synopsis

Imagine a baby boy born in the last year of World War II to parents who, pre-war, were the darlings of the town. The father, a four-letter man, the golden boy of the town and state’s athletic fields, and his spirited and beautiful bride, both enormously engaging personalities. The son knows his father both through the legendary, pre-war stories he has heard about him and his bride and as a one-legged casualty of the Battle of the Bulge, a powerful and embittered man, who returns from the war. How to square those two versions of his parents, and of his father especially? That is the subject matter of Father Figure—that quest and lengths to which the son is willing to go to regain a father he never had and the efforts of a sister and a past lover to save him before he goes too far

About this title

About the Author:

Lamar Herrin is the author of seven novels (The Lies Boys Tell, House of the Deaf, and Fractures, among others), a memoir, Romancing Spain, and numerous stories (in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review and Epoch). He has won a NEA fellowship, an AWP Award for the Novel, and the Paris Review's Aga Kahn award for fiction. He is a professor emeritus from Cornell University and with his wife Amparo Ferri divides his time between Ithaca, New York and Valencia, Spain.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fomite
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1942515537
• ISBN 13: 9781942515531
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286