Harry Abley was a nightmare of a father: depressive, self-absorbed,
unpredictable, emotionally unstable. He was also a dream of a
father: gentle, courageous, artistically gifted. Mark Abley, his
only child, grew up in the shadow of music and mental illness. How
he came to terms with this divided legacy, and how he learned to be
a man in the absence of a traditional masculine role model, are
central to this beautifully written memoir. This extraordinary
story will speak to all those who love music, who struggle with
depression, or who wrestle with the difficult bonds of love between
a parent and a child. Praise for The Organist: "A wise and haunting
book." -Martha Baillie, author of The Search for Heinrich Schloegel
"The Organist is a rich and wonderful book, a deeply insightful and
moving story of a family's journey through the 20th
century....Abley's tale is fearless in its revelations, yet also
loving, funny, and beautifully told." -Ronald Wright, author of A
Scientific Romance and A Short History of Progress "'What does a
life add up to?' This question is central to Mark Abley's haunting
family memoir, The Organist. Both expansive in the themes it raises
and intimate in details required to bring those themes to life,
it's a question that draws on Abley's talents as a remarkably clear
and thoughtful writer. In The Organist, he ventures bravely into
territory that is, for almost everyone, mysterious: what our
parents were like before we, their children, became (so we like to
imagine) central to their lives. What this compelling book makes
clear is that what we don't know about them is often what we don't
know about ourselves." -David Macfarlane, author of The Danger Tree
"Beautiful, tender, and raging, The Organist comes from where the
best writing usually does-deep emotion affirmed by hard-won
experience of how humans are in their relationships, and in their
own hearts. It has taken Mark Abley nearly a lifetime to produce
the book of his life. Not a moment too late, or too soon" -Charles
Foran, author of Mordecai: The Life & Times
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