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Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father
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- 9781846148774
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Kid Gloves: a Voyage Round My Father
- Item Height
- 198mm
- Publisher
- Penguin Books LTD
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- Family History, Literary Theory
- Item Width
- 129mm
- Item Weight
- 213g
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Kid Glovesis a highly entertaining book about (among other things) families, the legal profession, and the vexed question of Welsh identity. It is necessarily also a book about the writer himself - and the implausible, long-delayed moment, some years before, when he told his sexually conservative father about his own orientation. When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had always lived, the two men entered an oblique new stage in their relationship. Kid Glovesis a highly entertaining book about (among other things) families, the legal profession, and the vexed question of Welsh identity. It is necessarily also a book about the writer himself - and the implausible, long-delayed moment, some years before, when he told his sexually conservative father about his own orientation. The supporting cast includes Ian Fleming, the Moors Murderers, Jacqueline Bisset and Gilbert O'Sullivan, the singer-songwriter whose trademark look kept long shorts from their rightful place on the fashion pages for so many years. 'One of the best memoirs not only of this year but many . . . takes a family situation that would have prompted many writers to gory score-settling - a liberal gay son providing end-of-life care to his father, a homophobic Tory judge - and produces an account that manages to be tender, sharp and funny' Mark Lawson,New Statesman, Books of the Year 'A masterpiece . . . his most remarkable book to date.' Richard Canning,Literary Review 'A funny, tough, scrupulously fair memoir . . . Their vexed relationship, rich in vulnerability, frustration and farce, is unpacked for us with grace and subtle wit.' Elizabeth Lowry,The Times Literary Supplement,Books of the Year 'Witty, sardonic and humane . . . I was beguiled.' Margaret Drabble,New Statesman, Books of the Year 'An acutely funny writer.' Craig Brown,Mail on Sunday 'The best book about a father and a son ever.' Brian Morton,The Tablet
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Penguin Books LTD
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9781846148774
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Book Title
Kid Gloves: a Voyage Round My Father
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Family History, Literary Theory
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
213g
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United Kingdom
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