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In this essay collection, now with a new introduction by Ann
Patchett, Geoffrey Wolff recounts the moral (and sometimes immoral)
education of a writer, friend, husband, and father. He shows us his
wildly dysfunctional childhood Christmases--presided over by his
con-man father--then shifts to his brash, short-lived teaching
career in Istanbul. With dazzling literary agility, Wolff guides us
through the surprising, invaluable turns that shaped his path: his
victory over the chaos of drink, his open-heart surgery, his
life-affirming surrender to the slopes of the Matterhorn, and his
transcendent love of family. Long considered a classic, now
expanded and back in print after two decades, "A Day at the Beach"
shares Wolff's spirited, elegant, and deeply felt observations on
an extraordinary life.
Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman -- a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately improvised scams, exploiting employers, wives, and, finally, his own son.
In The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff unravels the enigma of this Gatsbyesque figure, a bad man who somehow was also a very good father, an inveterate liar who falsified everything but love.
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