My Father and Myself (New York Review Books Classics)
It makes today's memoirs look pallid.  --Emma Tennant, British VogueJ.R. Ackerley's humor is unique; his truth is stranger--and funnier--than fiction. My Father and Myself is a cross between Dickens's David Copperfield, Rousseau's Confessions, and the new pornography.  --Donald Windham