Father and Son
A Memoir
A Memoir
By Jonathan Raban
By Jonathan Raban
By Jonathan Raban
By Jonathan Raban
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Hardcover $28.00
Sep 19, 2023 | ISBN 9780375422454
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Praise
“A world war fought on three fronts by a young artillery officer; a courtship, marriage, and forced separation in a hesitant, old-fashioned English style; a sudden, devastating upheaval in the author’s own life — Jonathan Raban deploys the skills of an accomplished novelist to braid these elements into a beautiful, compelling memoir drawn from his parents’ wartime love letters. He is a master, as he has shown in his legendary travel writing, of summoning place and people with vivid economy. Haunting, Father and Son displays an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension between powerful emotions and carnage on one side, and on the other, the conventional codes of what must remain unsaid. This, Raban’s final work, is a gorgeous achievement.”—Ian McEwan, author of Lessons
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