Isbn: 9781039001077 - just once, no more: on fathers, sons, and who we are until we are no longer (10 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this vulnerable, honest, beautiful memoir, award-winning writer Charles Foran offers a brief and powerful meditation on fathers and sons, love and loss, even as his own father approaches the end of life."Luminous. . . . Wise and moving." Yann MartelDave Foran was a formidable man of few words, from a different era than his sensitive, literary son, Charlie. As a younger person, Dave had lived alone for months in the bush, overcome snow blindness, hauled a dead body across a frozen lake on a dogsled, dodged bullets in a bar, and gone toe-to-toe with a bear. Some aspects of his life were rollicking while others were more restrained: A decent father and a devoted husband, Dave was also emotionally distant, prone to laconic cynicism and a changeable mood. As Charlie writes: "He struggled most days of his life with wounds he could not readily identify, let alone heal." The year Charlie turned 55, his 83-year-old father began a slow, final decline, and Charlie surprised himself by wanting to write about their relationship. On the surface, his motivation was to reassure his father that he was loved. But there was also a deeper desire at work. "Late into the middle of my own lifespan," Charlie writes, "sadness took hold of my being . . . I wanted to say so frankly, never mind how uncomfortable it made me." In spare, haunting prose, Just Once, No More pulls on these delicate threads unravelling a fascinating personal story and revealing its poignant universality.…

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Zustand: New. CHARLES FORAN is a Member of the Order of Canada and a senior fellow at Massey College in the University of Toronto. He is the author of eleven books of fiction and nonfiction, and has won many awards and honours, including the Hilary Weston Writers&rsquo .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Just Once, No More | On Fathers, Sons, and Who We Are Until We Are No Longer | Charles Foran | Taschenbuch | Knopf Canada | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2025 | Random House | EAN 9781039001077 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…