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Publication date:
09 August 2017Length of book:
222 pagesPublisher
Hamilton BooksISBN-13: 9780761869597
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.
Was he implicated in his father’s death from alcoholism and depression, a sad end to a life of early promise and adventure? In this carefully structured memoir a son searches for an answer as he explores his father’s letters. Resisting easy resolution, the story Couser uncovers of his father’s complex emotional life is rich in surprising knowledge and belated recognitions.