Having wounded his father with a devastating letter when he was twenty-three and felt somewhat responsible for his subsequent mental collapse, the author reexamines his father's life using documents found after his death to reflect on their relationship and reach a reconciliation with a man he had not really known.
Having wounded his father with a devastating letter when he was twenty-three and felt somewhat responsible for his subsequent mental collapse, the aut...
Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not. Memoir matters, and there’s life in letters. All life writing arises of our daily lives and has distinctive impacts on them and the culture in which we live.
Life writing, in its various forms, does work that other forms of expression do not. Memoir matters, and there’s life in letters. All life writing a...