Dad's maybe book
O'Brien, Tim, 1946-2019
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When Tim O'Brien became an older father, he resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had given to him - a few scraps of paper signed 'Love, Dad'. Maybe a word of advice. Maybe a sentence or two about some long-ago Christmas Eve. Maybe some scattered glimpses of their rapidly ageing father, a man they might never really know. For the next 15 years, the author talked to his sons on paper, as if they were adults, imagining what they might want to hear from a father who was no longer among the living. O'Brien traverses the great variety of human experience and emotion, moving from soccer games to warfare to risqué lullabies, from alcoholism to magic shows to history lessons to bittersweet bedtime stories, but always returning to a father's soul-saving love for his sons.
Main title:
Dad's maybe book / Tim O'Brien.
Author:
O'Brien, Tim, 1946-, author
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2019.
Collation:
381 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780008372453 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
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BRN:
1882458
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