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My Father's Fortune (2010)

by Michael Frayn(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0571270581 (ISBN13: 9780571270583)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Faber & Faber

review 1: I was captivated by this book from the start. In today's climate, where family is not always so important and often older members of our heritage were farmed off to a home, this book is the anthithesis of this.He makes us realise how we connact,whether educated or less educated,older or younger, higher or upper class. World Wars and family traumas and who we experience them with make us the person we evolve. A wealth of human interest that should get us running towards our telephone and ringing long forgotton relatives.
review 2: Michael Frayn writes beautifully, combining humour with warmth and affection for his father, an apparently ordinary man but a fascinating one. Frayn has researched his family background and produced an account that is alternately very... more funny and sad, but never sentimental. Being just a little younger than the author I was gripped by his picture of the 40s and 50s and his relationship with his father which had its ups and downs. Highly recommended. less

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