Stories of Fatherhood (Everyman's Pocket Classics)

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Stories of Fatherhood (Everyman's Pocket Classics)

Stories of Fatherhood gathers more than a century ofÂ classic short stories about having,Â becoming, loving, and losing fathers.
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Frank Oâ€™Connorâ€™s hilarious tale of a tiny boyâ€™s war against his paternal rival in â€œMy Oedipus Complexâ€ sits beside Ann Packerâ€™s touching portrait of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first childâ€™s birth. At the other end of the lifespan, John Updikeâ€™s â€œMy Fatherâ€™s Tears,â€ Jim Shepardâ€™s â€œThe Mortality of Parents,â€ and William Maxwellâ€™s â€œThe man who lost his fatherâ€ bring us face to face with a loss that is like no other.
In between, we encounter a full range of emotions connecting men and their offspring:Â tenderness and devotion, anxiety and incomprehension, admiration and regret. Powerful patriarchs cast a long shadow in Katherine Mansfieldâ€™s â€œThe Daughters of the Late Colonelâ€ and D. H. Lawrenceâ€™s â€œThe Christening,â€ while Edith Whartonâ€™s â€œHis Fatherâ€™s Sonâ€ sheds a more ironic light on the paternal legacy. E. L. Doctorowâ€™s young protagonist, forced to write letters impersonating his dead father, arrives at a deeper understanding of him, while in Helen Simpsonâ€™s â€œSorry?â€ an old manâ€™s hearing aid seems to reveal what his children secretly think about him. Paternal bonds are forged outside biology, too: Graham Swift portrays a man wistfully seeking a substitute son, while Guy de Maupassantâ€™s forlorn waif triumphantly acquires an ideal father. In these twenty stories, an array of great writersâ€”ranging from Kafka, Joyce, and Nabokov to Raymond Carver, Harold Brodkey, and Andre Dubusâ€”offers a wonderfully varied assortment of fictional takes on paternity.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Country	USA
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780375712456
ISBN	0375712453
Label	Everyman's Library
Manufacturer	Everyman's Library
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	352
PublicationDate	2014-05-13
Publisher	Everyman's Library
ReleaseDate	2014-05-13
Studio	Everyman's Library

Stories of Fatherhood (Everyman's Pocket Classics)

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