When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss
- ISBN-10
- 0312427093
- ISBN-13
- 9780312427092
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-05-13
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Blake Morrison
Description
In a memoir of his father's life and death, the author asks if we can ever see parents as themselves, why they cannot reveal their secrets to us, and what they take with them that cannot be recovered when they die. Reissue. (A Sony Pictures Classic film, directed by Anand Tucker, releasing Fall 2007, starring Colin Firth & Jim Broadbent) (Biography & Autobiography)
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