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 Format: Paperback, 280 pages
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Inc., The
ISBN: 0940322129
Release Date: Jan 1, 1992
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When his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself died, he left a surprise of his own--this coolly considered, unsparingly honest account of his quest to find out the whole truth about the man who had always eluded him in life. But Ackerley's pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self, making My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man. This witty, sorrowful, and beautiful book is a classic of twentieth-century memoir.
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A noted memoirist explores his father's double life and his own sexual proclivities. Candid (an early draft began "My father's penis was twelve inches long"), and remarkably moving. With an introduction by W.H. Auden. "Constructed with the greatest skill, planned like an elaborate mystery story"—Michael Holroyd, New York Times
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Emma Tennant, British VogueIt makes today's memoirs look pallid. —Emma Tennant
J.R. Ackerley's humor is unique; his truth is stranger - and funnier - than fiction. My Father and Myself is a cross between Dickens' David Copperfield, Rousseau's Confessions, and The New Pornagraphy. Donald Windham —Donald Windham
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Ackerley, J.R, (Joe Randolph),, 1896-1967, Gay men, Great Britain, Homosexuality, Biography / Autobiography, Literary, Specific Groups - Male Gay Studies, Biography & Autobiography, 20th century, Great Britain, Authors, English, Family relationships, Fathers and sons, Gay men, Ackerley, J R
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