When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss

Morrison, Blake

ISBN 10: 0312427093 / ISBN 13: 9780312427092

Published by Picador, 2008

Seller Inventory # 0312427093-3-27043837

Synopsis:

The critically-acclaimed memoir and the basis for the 2007 motion picture, directed by Anand Tucker and starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent

And when did you last see your father? Was it last weekend or last Christmas? Was it before or after he exhaled his last breath? And was it him really, or was it a version of him, shaped by your own expectations and disappointments?

Blake Morrison's subject is universal: the life and death of a parent, a father at once beloved and exasperating, charming and infuriating, domineering and terribly vulnerable. In reading about Dr. Arthur Morrison, we come to ask ourselves the same searching questions that Blake Morrison poses: Can we ever see our parents as themselves, or are they forever defined through a child's eyes? What are the secrets of their lives, and why do they spare us that knowledge? And when they die, what do they take with them that cannot be recovered or inherited?

When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss has also been published as And When Did You Last See Your Father?

About the Author: Blake Morrison is a memoirist, poet, playwright, and novelist. He lives in London. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and former Chair of the Poetry Book Society and Vice-Chair of PEN, he is best known for his memoir When Did You Last See Your Father?.

Bibliographic Details

Title: When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son's ...
Publisher: Picador
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good