Life With Father - Hardcover

Day, Clarence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1579124321 ISBN 13: 9781579124328

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, 2005

Synopsis

Clarence Day's comic stories of his father, Clarence "Clare" Day Senior are taken from the "New Yorker" magazine. They portray a rambunctious, overburdened Wall Street broker who demands that everything from his family should be just so. When it isn't, all hell breaks loose and an amusing sight it is too from a safe enough distance. Clare is intolerant, tyrannical and plain obnoxious in his constant battle to harness the world to his way of thinking. He rages against his staff, his cook, his wife, his horse, salesmen, the need for holidays, the need to be ill and, of course, the inability of his children to live up to his impossible standards. Yet, the more he rails, the more comic a figure he cuts and the more he blusters, the more lovable this makes him to his own beleaguered family.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Comic tales of life with a hot-tempered father taken from the New Yorker magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1579124321
• ISBN 13: 9781579124328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176