Letter to My Father

A Memoir

G. Thomas Couser (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

222 Seiten

2017
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6958-0 (ISBN)

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Having wounded his father with a devastating letter when he was twenty-three and felt somewhat responsible for his subsequent mental collapse, the author reexamines his father’s life using documents found after his death to reflect on their relationship and reach a reconciliation with a man he had not really known.

Having wounded his father with a hurtful letter when he was twenty-three, Tom Couser felt somewhat responsible for his later mental collapse. When his father died, Tom found personal documents that revealed facets of his father’s life of which Tom had known nothing. Too traumatized to grieve properly, much less to probe his father’s complicated history, Tom boxed the documents and stored them—for over thirty years. When he finally explored his father’s rich legacy, he achieved a belated reconciliation with a man he had not really known.

G. Thomas Couser is professor emeritus of English at Hofstra University and author of six previous books, including Memoir: An Introduction, published by Oxford UP in 2012.

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Prologue: In My Father’s Closet: Life, Death, and Letters
Part One: The Father I (Thought I) Knew
1. After the War: Manchester, New Hampshire 1947-1954
2. Suburban Life: Melrose 1954-1968
3. The Empty Nest: 1964 to 1973
4. McLean Patient, 1973
5. Widower: 1973-1975
6. Endnotes: A Life in Scraps, 1974-75
Part Two: Part Two: The Father I Never Knew (But Now Know)
7. Mill Town Lad: 1906-1930
8. “In Aleppo Once”: Syria 1930-33
9. First Love: Rody
10. Illicit Love: Lena
11. Manly Love: Bob and the YMCA
12. Edgar: “To you, I shall return a Prodigal”
13. George Saylor: Gay Blade
14. Marriage, War, and Family
Epilogue: Grief Interrupted

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 228 mm
Gewicht	354 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-7618-6958-1 / 0761869581
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-6958-0 / 9780761869580
Zustand	Neuware