num_pages: 336
description: A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost a father and his child.He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in Corby, somewhere between the bar and the cigarette machine. A foundling; a fantasist; a morose, threatening drinker who was quick with his hands, he hadn't seen his son for years. John Burnside's extraordinary story of this failed relationship is a beautifully written evocation of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father's men defined by the drink they could take and the pain they could stand, men shaped by their guilt and machismo.A Lie About My Father is about forgiving but not forgetting, about examining the way men are made and how they fall apart, about understanding that in order to have a good son you must have a good father.Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
language: English
title: A Lie about My Father
titlecomplete: A Lie about My Father
genres: Memoir, British Literature, Biography Memoir, Autobiography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 276
places: England, New York City, New York, Scotland
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Prix Littéraire Européen - Madeleine Zepter, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Saltire Society Literary Award
category: Scottish Book of the Year, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Corine Internationaler Buchpreis
category: Belletristik
publisher: Vintage Books USA