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For the first time, Michael Frayn, the "master of what is seriously funny" (Anthony Burgess), turns his humor and narrative genius on his own family's story to re-create the world that made him who he is.
Whether is is deliriously funny or philosophically profound, as a novelist and a playwright Michael Frayn has concerned himself with the ordinary lives lived by erring humans, which are always more extraordinary than people think. In My Father's Fortune, Frayn reveals the original exemplar of the extraordinary ordinary life: his father, Tom Frayn.
A clever lad, an asbestos salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness; through the setback of a son as bafflingly slow-witted as the father was quick on his feet; through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life.
Tom Frayn left his son little more than three watches and two ink-and-wash prints. But the true fortune he passed on was the great humor and spirit revealed in this beguiling memoir.
Whether is is deliriously funny or philosophically profound, as a novelist and a playwright Michael Frayn has concerned himself with the ordinary lives lived by erring humans, which are always more extraordinary than people think. In My Father's Fortune, Frayn reveals the original exemplar of the extraordinary ordinary life: his father, Tom Frayn.
A clever lad, an asbestos salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary, Tom Frayn emerged undaunted from a childhood spent in two rooms with six other people, all of them deaf. And undaunted he stayed, through German rockets, feckless in-laws, and his own increasing deafness; through the setback of a son as bafflingly slow-witted as the father was quick on his feet; through the shockingly sudden tragedy that darkened his life.
Tom Frayn left his son little more than three watches and two ink-and-wash prints. But the true fortune he passed on was the great humor and spirit revealed in this beguiling memoir.
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Michael Frayn is the author of ten novels including the bestselling Headlong, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice selection and a Booker Prize finalist, and Spies, which received the Whitbread Fiction Award. He has also written fifteen plays, among them Noises Off and Copenhagen, which won three Tony Awards in 1999. He lives just south of London.
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