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Prospero's Son (Hardcover, New)
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Prospero's Son (Hardcover, New)
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This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two
consciousnesses and almost two epochs." That's how Edmund Gosse
opened "Father and Son", the classic 1907 book about his
relationship with his father. Seth Lerer's "Prospero's Son" is, as
fits our latter days, altogether more complicated, layered, and
multivalent, but at its heart is that same problem: the fraught
relationship between fathers and sons. At the same time, Lerer's
memoir is about the power of books and theater, the excitement of
stories in a young man's life, and the transformative magic of
words and performance. A flamboyantly performative father, a
teacher and lifelong actor, comes to terms with his life as a gay
man. A bookish boy becomes a professor of literature and an
acclaimed expert on the very children's books that set him on his
path in the first place. And when that boy grows up, he learns how
hard it is to be a father and how much books can, and cannot,
instruct him. Throughout these intertwined accounts of changing
selves, Lerer returns again and again to stories - the ways they
teach us about discovery, deliverance, forgetting, and remembering.
"A child is a man in small letter," wrote Bishop John Earle in the
seventeenth century. "His father hath writ him as his own little
story." With "Prospero's Son", Seth Lerer acknowledges the author
of his story while simultaneously reminding us that we all confront
the blank page of life on our own, as authors of our lives.
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