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Da Capo Lifelong Books
February 2008
On Sale: February 1, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 0738210978
EAN: 9780738210971
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A memoir of a father and son relationship cut short by heart
attack, and the powerful pull of love across the empty years. Sixteen-year-old Steve McKee watched his father die of a
heart attack on the couch in their TV room. A lifelong
smoker and workaholic, John McKee had been floored by a
heart attack five years earlier. The McKee clan--perhaps
including a demoralized John himself--had long been waiting
for the other shoe to drop. At age fifty-two, Steve McKee learned that he was his
father's son more than he had ever hoped--he, too, has
serious cardiovascular disease. Haunted by his father's
seeming surrender to the condition, McKee set out to find
the man who died before the son could know him. In so doing,
what might he, Steve McKee, learn of himself? Chronicling the disorienting first days following John
McKee's death, My Father's Heart is an extraordinary story
of an all-too-ordinary scenario: A father dies, a son
remains, and the loss casts a long shadow across a
generation. Rich in evocative detail of time, place, and
family, it is a powerful memoir of love, forgiveness, and
finding oneself.
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