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PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-100743249631
ISBN-139780743249638
eBay Product ID (ePID)58638449
Product Key Features
Book TitleBill from My Father : a Memoir
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicParenting / Fatherhood, General, Literary, Customs & Traditions, Emotions
GenreFamily & Relationships, Social Science, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorBernard Cooper
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight9.6 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"Honest and keen-eyed...a nuanced, pained portrayal of how -- and often how awkwardly -- men love." -- Norah Vincent,The New York Times, "YCooper has? a richely unique voice...one of the loveliest memoirs to come along in a great while." -- Kevin Smokler, "San Francisco Chronicle", "Cooper is a memoirist in the Tobias Wolff vein, and[The Bill from My Father]is a rueful, self-effacing, yet dazzlingly precise affair." -- Michael Upchurch,The Seattle Times, "Bernard Cooper's The Bill From My Father is a glorious cornucopia of love and pain. Not only is Cooper an exemplary writer but he can parse an emotion down to its most resonant note. This memoir amazes." -- Alice Sebold, "Cooper is a memoirist in the Tobias Wolff vein, and[The Bill from My Father]is a rueful, self-effacing, yet dazzlingly precise affair."-- Michael Upchurch,The Seattle Times, "[Cooper has] a richely unique voice...one of the loveliest memoirs to come along in a great while." -- Kevin Smokler,San Francisco Chronicle, "Cooper is a memoirist in the Tobias Wolff vein, and "[The Bill from My Father]" is a rueful, self-effacing, yet dazzlingly precise affair." -- Michael Upchurch, "The Seattle Times", "[Cooper has] a richely unique voice...one of the loveliest memoirs to come along in a great while." -- Kevin Smokler, San Francisco Chronicle, "A masterful, compelling, and supremely entertaining portait. Some books are easily forgotten, but not this one. I will never be able to look at a coat of arms, a sheet of onionskin, or a cemetary again without feeling the need to tell someone about Edward Cooper." -- Mark Salzman, "[Cooper has] a richely unique voice...one of the loveliest memoirs to come along in a great while."-- Kevin Smokler,San Francisco Chronicle, "Honest and keen-eyed...a nuanced, pained portrayal of how -- and often how awkwardly -- men love." -- Norah Vincent, The New York Times, "Bernard Cooper's The Bill From My Father is a glorious cornucopia of love and pain. Not only is Cooper an exemplary writer but he can parse an emotion down to its most resonant note. This memoir amazes."-- Alice Sebold, "[Cooper has] a richely unique voice...one of the loveliest memoirs to come along in a great while." -- Kevin Smokler, "San Francisco Chronicle", "Honest and keen-eyed...a nuanced, pained portrayal of how -- and often how awkwardly -- men love."-- Norah Vincent,The New York Times, "Honest and keen-eyed...a nuanced, pained portrayal of how -- and often how awkwardly -- men love." -- Norah Vincent, "The New York Times", "Cooper is a memoirist in the Tobias Wolff vein, and [The Bill from My Father] is a rueful, self-effacing, yet dazzlingly precise affair." -- Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, "A masterful, compelling, and supremely entertaining portait. Some books are easily forgotten, but not this one. I will never be able to look at a coat of arms, a sheet of onionskin, or a cemetary again without feeling the need to tell someone about Edward Cooper."-- Mark Salzman
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal813/.54 B
SynopsisEdward 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 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 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 Fatherhas become a penetrating meditation on both monetary and emotional indebtedness, and on the mysterious nature of memory and love., In this ambitious and searching work, Cooper crafts a memoir that illuminatesthe enduring, intersecting mysteries of family, memory, and identity.
