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My Father and Myself (Nyrb Classics S)
0940322129 azw3 This heartfelt gay memoir about an adult son uncovering his fathers secrets is a cross between Dickenss David Copperfield, Rousseaus Confessions, and the new pornography (Donald Windham). When his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself died, he left a surprise of his ownthis coolly considered, unsparingly honest account of his quest to find out the whole truth about the man who had always eluded him in life. But Ackerleys pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the selfmaking My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man. This witty, sorrowful, and beautiful book is a classic of twentieth-century memoir. Read more