Klik op een omslag om naar Google Boeken te gaan.
Bezig met laden... Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father (editie 1990)door Geoffrey Wolff (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkThe Duke of Deception: Memories of My Father door Geoffrey Wolff
Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is a strange story on several counts. It recalls a convoluted childhood and path to a successful adult life, and in a departure from other "bad parent" memoirs, the author begins by trying to understand his father by first reaching to understand his father's childhood. I think this is something that all memoirists should do, before they lay the blame for their unsatisfactory childhoods at their parents' doorstep. It is complex, disturbing, revealing. I think it could have been a little better if the author had focused a bit more on their childhood positives, as there had to be enough to carry them forward. On the other hand, then it wouldn't have been the story that I read. Since it was published over 40 years ago, I am late to the party but I found it still relevant. ( ) Wow, what a bummer to be Geoffrey Wolff and have a father like Trump, who thinks he should never have to pay debts. I imagine that's how Trump's kids feel. His family had to move all over the place when the bills caught up with them. When Geoff was grown up, his father expected him to get him a job, let him move in with him . . . Aargh! geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Is verkort inPrijzen
Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman -- a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately improvised scams, exploiting employers, wives, and, finally, his own son. In The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff unravels the enigma of this Gatsbyesque figure, a bad man who somehow was also a very good father, an inveterate liar who falsified everything but love. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |