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My Father's Fortune (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250002341)
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xWinner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize
Award-winning playwright and novelist Michael Frayn makes the family memoir his own (The Daily Telegraph) as he tells the story of his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad, an asbestos salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness; through the setback of a son as bafflingly slow-witted as the father was quick on his feet; through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life. As Peter Kemp wrote in The Sunday Times (London), Frayn has never written with more searching brilliance than in his quest for his past.Author: Michael Frayn
ISBN-10: 1250002346
ISBN-13: 9781250002341
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2012
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.46w x 0.76d
By Michael Frayn
xMichael Frayn is the author of ten novels, including the best-selling Headlong, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and Spies, which received the Whitbread Fiction Award. Michael Frayn is also the author of My Father's Fortune: A Life, The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe, Democracy: A Play, A Landing on the Sun: A Novel, The Copenhagen Papers: An Intrigue and The Trick of It: A Novel. He has also written fifteen plays, among them Noises Off and Copenhagen, which won three Tony Awards in 1999. He lives just south of London.
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