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Like Father, Like Son - A family story (Hardcover)
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Like Father, Like Son - A family story (Hardcover)
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List price R625
Loot Price R510
Discovery Miles 5 100
You Save R115 (18%)
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'a quietly impressive book, which does something most celebrity
autobiographies shy away from: it seeks the truth and, more often
than not, finds it.' - THE MAIL A look at the life and times of the
man Sir Michael most looked up to. It started in the shadow of the
pithead in a South Yorkshire mining village and ended up in tears
before an audience of millions. Michael Parkinson's relationship
with his late father John William was, and remains, a family love
story overflowing with tenderness and tall tales of sporting
valour, usually involving Yorkshire cricket or Barnsley FC.
However, it was the overwhelming grief which poured out of Michael
when Piers Morgan pressed him about John William in a television
interview - four decades after the death of the father he
encapsulated as 'Yorkshireman, miner, humorist and fast bowler' -
that convinced one of the outstanding broadcasters and journalists
of our time to delve deeper into the dynamics of their lives
together. Co-written with his son Mike, this affectionate and
revealing memoir explores the influences which shaped John William,
Michael and succeeding generations of Parkinsons. The journey leads
them from the depths of a Yorkshire coal mine, via the chapel, pub
and picture-house, to a spot behind the bowler's arm at Lord's and
the sands at Scarborough. While Like Father, Like Son conveys a
powerful sense of time and place, it is wit, insight and, above
all, enduring love which shine through its pages.
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