And when did you last see your father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss Summary and Reviews

And when did you last see your father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss
by Blake Morrison

And when did you last see your father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss
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Author: Blake Morrison
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-04-15
ISBN: 0312142730
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Picador

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Book Review: Life, Death, Guilt and The Truth
Summary: 5 Stars

I read this book not long after my own father died and I opened it with a sort of dread that it might overwhelm me with feelings I'd rather not have, but the experience was not quite like that. Blake Morrison's honest account of his own father's death, gave me so much I could identify with, and made my own issues so much clearer. In a world where it is the habit to say what we think we should feel and not what we actually do, it is an act of rare generosity for someone to tell the brutal truth about such things. There is much humour in the book and by the end of it, I had a real affection and appreciation of that collection of ambiguities, which was his dad. Far from finding it a painful read, although there are some jarring moments, I felt a huge weight lifted from my mind. I feel a real sense of gratitude that Morrison took the trouble to write it.

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