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The Bill from My Father: A Memoir Paperback - 2007
by Cooper, Bernard
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In this ambitious and searching work, Cooper crafts a memoir that illuminatesthe enduring, intersecting mysteries of family, memory, and identity.
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- Title The Bill from My Father: A Memoir
- Author Cooper, Bernard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 7th Printing
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2007-01-01
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1003323
- ISBN 9780743249638 / 0743249631
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Edward Cooper is a hard man to know.Dour and exuberant by turns, his moods dictate the always uncertain climate of the Cooper household. Balding, octogenarian, and partial to a polyester jumpsuit, Edward Cooper makes an unlikely literary muse. But to his son he looms larger than life, an overwhelming and baffling presence.
Edward's ambivalent regard for his son is the springboard from which this deeply intelligent memoir takes flight. By the time the author receives his inheritance (which includes a message his father taped to the underside of a safe deposit box), and sees the surprising epitaph inscribed on his father's headstone, The Bill from My Father has become a penetrating meditation on both monetary and emotional indebtedness, and on the mysterious nature of memory and love.
Edward's ambivalent regard for his son is the springboard from which this deeply intelligent memoir takes flight. By the time the author receives his inheritance (which includes a message his father taped to the underside of a safe deposit box), and sees the surprising epitaph inscribed on his father's headstone, The Bill from My Father has become a penetrating meditation on both monetary and emotional indebtedness, and on the mysterious nature of memory and love.
First line
"I scratch," said my father.
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 06/06/2008, Page 73
- New York Times, 03/04/2007, Page 28