The Bill from My Father: A Memoir by Cooper, Bernard

The Bill from My Father: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743249638)

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The Bill from My Father: A Memoir by Cooper, Bernard

The Bill from My Father: A Memoir

$17.99
The Bill from My Father: A Memoir by Cooper, Bernard

The Bill from My Father: A Memoir

$17.99
Format: Paperback
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Edward Cooper is a hard man to know.Dour and exuberant by turns, his moods dictate the always uncertain climate of the Cooper household. Balding, octogenarian, and partial to a polyester jumpsuit, Edward Cooper makes an unlikely literary muse. But to his son he looms larger than life, an overwhelming and baffling presence.

Edward's ambivalent regard for his son is the springboard from which this deeply intelligent memoir takes flight. By the time the author receives his inheritance (which includes a message his father taped to the underside of a safe deposit box), and sees the surprising epitaph inscribed on his father's headstone, The Bill from My Father has become a penetrating meditation on both monetary and emotional indebtedness, and on the mysterious nature of memory and love.

Author: Bernard Cooper
ISBN-10: 0743249631
ISBN-13: 9780743249638
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/04/2007 pg. 28
Entertainment Weekly 06/06/2008 pg. 73
By Bernard Cooper
By Bernard Cooper
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Bernard Cooper has won numerous awards and prizes, among them the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award, an O. Henry Prize, and literature fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and The National Endowment of the Arts.

He has published two memoirs, Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum, as well as a novel, A Year of Rhymes, and a collection of short stories, Guess Again. His work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, Gentleman's Quarterly, and The Paris Review and in several volumes of The Best American Essays. He lives in Los Angeles and is the art critic for Los Angeles Magazine.

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