num_pages: 224
description: The critically-acclaimed memoir and the basis for the 2007 motion picture, directed by Anand Tucker and starring Colin Firth and Jim BroadbentAnd when did you last see your father? Was it last weekend or last Christmas? Was it before or after he exhaled his last breath? And was it him really, or was it a version of him, shaped by your own expectations and disappointments?Blake Morrison's subject is the life and death of a parent, a father at once beloved and exasperating, charming and infuriating, domineering and terribly vulnerable. In reading about Dr. Arthur Morrison, we come to ask ourselves the same searching questions that Blake Morrison Can we ever see our parents as themselves, or are they forever defined through a child's eyes? What are the secrets of their lives, and why do they spare us that knowledge? And when they die, what do they take with them that cannot be recovered or inherited?When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss has also been published as And When Did You Last See Your Father?
language: English
title: When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss
titlecomplete: When Did You Last See Your Father?: A Son's Memoir of Love and Loss
genres: Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Death, Biography Memoir, College, Contemporary, Nonfiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 928
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography
publisher: Picador