"Old Bastard" My Psychotic Father

ISBN-10: 132656451X
ISBN-13: 9781326564513
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: English
Published: 2016-02-20
Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc
Author: David Bret

Description

"Evil, cruel, contrived, nasty, homophobic, slimy, pathetic, puerile, poisonous, loathsome, psychotic, despotic, anti-Semitic, bigoted, adulterous and loud-mouthed. These are just some of the terms—and I’m sure there are more—that applied to George Spurr, my adoptive father. Add to this roster child-beater, rapist and crook, and this just about sums him up. It used to make me angry and confused, as a child, watching fathers hugging their sons, or seeing sons weeping for the fathers they had loved and lost. Mine never once hugged me, or showed the slightest affection towards anyone when he was a part of my life, or even suggested that he cared about anyone but himself. When at family weddings I watched fathers proudly lead their daughters down the aisle to give them away at their wedding, my heartfelt desire was to see mine laid out in a wooden box." This is how celebrity biographer David Bret describes the man who adopted and raised him, in this harrowing story of his abused childhood and youth,

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