A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his
child. He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in
Corby, somewhere between the bar and the cigarette machine. A
foundling; a fantasist; a morose, threatening drinker who was quick
with his hands, he hadn't seen his son for years. John Burnside's
extraordinary story of this failed relationship is a beautifully
written evocation of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the
constants of his father's world: men defined by the drink they
could take and the pain they could stand, men shaped by their guilt
and machismo. A Lie About My Father is about forgiving but not
forgetting, about examining the way men are made and how they fall
apart, about understanding that in order to have a good son you
must have a good father. Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and the
Scottish Arts Council Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
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