My Father and Myself

Ackerley, J. R.

ISBN 10: 0940322129 / ISBN 13: 9780940322127

Verlag: New York Review of Books, 1999

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NYRB CLASSICS: An adult son and acclaimed author offers a heartfelt gay memoir about uncovering his late father’s secrets.

“A cross between Dickens’s David Copperfield, Rousseau’s Confessions, and the new pornography.” —Donald Windham, novelist and memoirist
 
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 20th-century memoir.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine The Listener. His works include three memoirs, Hindoo Holiday, My Dog Tulip, and My Father and Myself, and a novel, We Think the World of You (all available as New York Review Books).

W.H. Auden (1907—1973) was born in North Yorkshire, England, the son of a doctor. He studied at Oxford and published his first book, Poems, in 1930, immediately establishing himself as one of the outstanding voices of his generation. Auden emigrated to New York in 1939, where he became a US citizen and converted to Anglicanism. He wrote essays, critical studies, plays, and opera librettos for such composers as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Hans Werner Henze, as well as the poems for which he is most famous.

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Titel: My Father and Myself
Verlag: New York Review of Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good
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