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Kid Gloves. A Voyage Round My Father

Door Adam Mars-Jones

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#226689
Titel
Kid Gloves. A Voyage Round My Father
Auteur
Mars-Jones, Adam
Boektype
Gebonden
Uitgeverij
London, Penguin
Jaar van uitgave
2015
ISBN10
1846148758
ISBN13
9781846148750
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had always lived, the two men entered an oblique new stage in their relationship. In the aftermath of an unlooked-for intimacy, Mars-Jones has written a book devoted to particular emotions and events. Kid Gloves is a highly entertaining book about (among other things) families, the legal profession, and the vexed question of Welsh identity. It is necessarily also a book about the writer himself - and the implausible, long-delayed moment, some years befo... (Lees verder)re, when he told his sexually conservative father about his own orientation, taking the homophobic bull by the horns. The supporting cast includes Ian Fleming, the Moors Murderers, Jacqueline Bisset and Gilbert O'Sullivan, the singer-songwriter whose trademark look kept long shorts from their rightful place on the fashion pages for so many years.
Pagina's
274
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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