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A Life
Metropolis Books
February 2011
On Sale: February 15, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 080509377X
EAN: 9780805093773
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
For the first time, Michael Frayn, the "master of what is
seriously funny,"* turns his humor and narrative genius on
his own family's story, to re-create the world that made him
who he is Whether he is deliriously funny or philosophically profound,
as a novelist and a playwright Michael Frayn has concerned
himself with the ordinary life lived by erring humans, which
is 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, a roofing 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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