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The Bill from My Father, January 2007
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THE BILL FROM MY FATHER
By: Bernard Cooper

A Memoir

Simon and Schuster
January 2007
On Sale: January 9, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 0743249631
EAN: 9780743249638
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Non-Fiction Memoir

Edward Cooper is a hard man to know.Dour and exuberant by turns, his moods dictate the always uncertain climate of the Cooper household. Balding, octogenarian, and partial to a polyester jumpsuit, Edward Cooper makes an unlikely literary muse. But to his son he looms larger than life, an overwhelming and baffling presence.

Edward's ambivalent regard for his son is the springboard from which this deeply intelligent memoir takes flight. By the time the author receives his inheritance (which includes a message his father taped to the underside of a safe deposit box), and sees the surprising epitaph inscribed on his father's headstone, The Bill from My Father has become a penetrating meditation on both monetary and emotional indebtedness, and on the mysterious nature of memory and love.

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This American Life - March 24, 2007