-In The Shadow Of Our Father- is a story about the impact of an unusual man on his brood of unwanted, hapless children. It is a story told through the memories of his second son; a son who followed, in more ways than he would admit, in the frenzied steps of this stranger called Dad. We begin with some of the earliest recollections of Richard, the son who was quickly to become the -black sheep- amidst a family of grey lambs, all of whom lived on the fringe of a circle encompassing the normal Woven into these memories is a time-line that begins with the setting of a fire to an apartment in the...