My Father and Myself
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2006
Summary
NYRB CLASSICS:
An adult son and acclaimed author offers a heartfelt gay memoir about uncovering his late father’s secrets.
“A cross between Dickens’s David Copperfield, Rousseau’s Confessions, and the new pornography.” -Donald Windham, novelist and memoirist
When his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself died, he left a surprise of his own—this coolly considered, unsparingly honest account of his q…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780940322127 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0940322129 |
| Author: | J.R. Ackerley, W.H. Auden |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 328g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 202mm |
| Series: | NYRB Classics S. |
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“I would like to give J.R. Ackerley’s My Father and Myself to the entire Tory Shadow Cabinet… It shows how tissue-thin the narrative of power and ‘respectable’ class-consciousness always has been. The likes of David Cameron should read this book and think again if they believe hegemony to be part of their birthright.” Will Self. Times
J.R. Ackerley
J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine The Listener. His works include three memoirs, Hindoo Holiday, My Dog Tulip, and My Father and Myself, and a novel, We Think the World of You.
W.H. Auden (1907-1973) was born in North Yorkshire, England, the son of a doctor. He studied at Oxford and published his first book, Poems, in 1930, immediately establishing himself as one of the outstanding voices of his generation. Auden emigrated to New York in 1939, where he became a US citizen and converted to Anglicanism. He wrote essays, critical studies, plays, and opera librettos for such composers as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Hans Werner Henze, as well as the poems for which he is most famous.
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