Research Catalog
My father's fortune : a life
- Title
- My father's fortune : a life / Michael Frayn.
- Author
- Frayn, Michael.
- Publication
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 16-800 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 273 pages : illustrations, portraits; 22 cm
- Summary
- Whether he is deliriously funny or philosophically profound, as a novelist and a playwright Michael Frayn has concerned himself with the ordinary life lived by erring humans, which is always more extraordinary than people think. InMy Father's Fortune, Frayn reveals the original exemplar of the extraordinary-ordinary life: his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad, a roofing salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness; through the setback of a son as bafflingly slow-witted as the father was quick on his feet; through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life. Tom Frayn left his son little more than three watches and two ink-and-wash prints. But the true fortune he passed on was the great humor and spirit revealed in this beguiling memoir.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Homburg -- Smart lad -- House of straw -- Duckmore -- Furniture and fittings -- Quick/slow -- Fire resistance -- A glass of sherry -- Child care -- Top to bottom -- Skylark -- Chez nous -- Black dog -- Closer -- Legatees.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-800
- ISBN
- 9780805093773
- 080509377X
- LCCN
- 2010025959
- OCLC
- 613431971
- Author
- Frayn, Michael.
- Title
- My father's fortune : a life / Michael Frayn.
- Publisher
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-800