Author: A. J. JonesPublisher: XP Publishing
ISBN: 1936101378
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Finding Father
Author: A. J. JonesPublisher: XP Publishing
ISBN: 1936101378
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Father
Author: Luigi ZojaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135454310
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Luigi Zoja views the origin and evolution of the father from a Jungian perspective. He argues that the father's role in bringing up children is a social construction that has been subject to change throughout history - and looks at the consequences of this, along with the crisis facing fatherhood today. The Father will be welcomed by people from a wide variety of disciplines, including practitioners and students of psychology, sociology and anthropology, and by the educated general reader.
The Father
Author: Andrés CrucianiPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578429243
Category : Fathers and daughters
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"I have a story for you," says a man-head shaved, an arm tattooed black. He goes by the name of Savage. The story goes like this:One day, Savage comes home to find his girlfriend, Sarah, crying, holding their shrieking daughter over a bath of steaming water. That afternoon, Savage takes their money, their baby, and jumps on a bus. When he calls Sarah, she threatens to call the police."If you do, you will never see her again," he proclaims.He begins a life on the lam. But is a life of hiding really the greatness Savage had always dreamed of?THE FATHER is the story of a man kidnapping his own daughter to save her-but finding that he has lost himself.
Father Book
Author: DR. FRANK. MINIRTHPublisher: Nelsonword Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780785281887
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
My Father is a Book
Author: Janna Malamud SmithPublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619021013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Bernard Malamud was one of the most accomplished American novelists of the postwar years. From the Pulitzer Prize winner The Fixer as well as The Assistant, named one of the best "100 All–Time Novels" by Time Magazine—to mention only two of the more than a dozen published books—he not only established himself in the first rank of American writers but also took the country's literature in new and important directions. In her signature memoir, Smith explores her renowned father's life and literary legacy. Malamud was among the most brilliant novelists of his era, and counted among his friends Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Theodore Roethke, and Shirley Jackson. Yet Malamud was also very private. Only his family has had full access to his personal papers, including letters and journals that offer unique insight into the man and his work. In her candid, evocative, and loving memoir, his daughter brings Malamud to vivid life.
Dreams from My Father
Author: Barack ObamaPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307394123
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World). “Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Praise for Dreams from My Father “Beautifully crafted . . . moving and candid . . . This book belongs on the shelf beside works like James McBride’s The Color of Water and Gregory Howard Williams’s Life on the Color Line as a tale of living astride America’s racial categories.”—Scott Turow “Provocative . . . Persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither.”—The New York Times Book Review “Obama’s writing is incisive yet forgiving. This is a book worth savoring.”—Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here “One of the most powerful books of self-discovery I’ve ever read, all the more so for its illuminating insights into the problems not only of race, class, and color, but of culture and ethnicity. It is also beautifully written, skillfully layered, and paced like a good novel.”—Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author of In My Place “Dreams from My Father is an exquisite, sensitive study of this wonderful young author’s journey into adulthood, his search for community and his place in it, his quest for an understanding of his roots, and his discovery of the poetry of human life. Perceptive and wise, this book will tell you something about yourself whether you are black or white.”—Marian Wright Edelman
The Sins of the Father
Author: Jeffrey ArcherPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429949031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
On the heels of the international bestseller Only Time Will Tell, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles.... Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. But his ship is sunk in the Atlantic by a German U-boat, drowning almost the entire crew. An American cruise liner, the SS Kansas Star, rescues a handful of sailors, among them Harry and the third officer, an American named Tom Bradshaw. When Bradshaw dies in the night, Harry seizes on the chance to escape his tangled past and assumes his identity. But on landing in America, he quickly learns the mistake he has made, when he discovers what is awaiting Bradshaw in New York. Without any way of proving his true identity, Harry Clifton is now chained to a past that could be far worse than the one he had hoped to escape.
Remember the Father
Author: Mike StruckPublisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1457557649
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
From the narrow streets of old Jerusalem to the rolling corn fields of the Midwest, Iowa author Mike Struck has chronicled a fictional modern-day thriller that takes a young farm couple from the point of struggling to conceive, to a point of having the most recognized child on earth. Struck’s incredible first novel moves the reader from the moment of the child's amazing conception and does not lee go until the very last chapter of this riveting page turner Even before word of the amazing birth goes public, there ne those who want to harm the baby; not just to destroy the child, but wipe out an evidence of the infant's existence The gripping story recounts how ordinary people do extraordinary things to protect the once they love. From everyday Iowans, just doing their job to the President of the United States, who attempts to control the chaos as word gees out about the child and the subsequent wondrous events that galvanize the world. Remember the Father is a fast paced reed that will keep you guessing and keep you at the edge of your seat. If you enjoy books that you hate to put down until the climatic end, Remember the Father is a book you cannot miss.
The Father
Author: Florian ZellerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780573115554
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Father, in this English translation by Christopher Hampton, was commissioned by the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath and premiered in October 2014. The production transferred to the Tricycle Theatre, London and subsequently to Wyndham's Theatre in the West End. Florian Zeller's The Father was awarded the Moliere Award for Best Play and the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Actor.
The Father
Author: Sharon OldsPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307760731
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
A searing sequence of poems about a daughter’s vision of a father’s illness and death—by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won’t back down" (San Francisco Chronicle). The Father chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The book is, most of all, a series of acts of understanding. The poems are impelled by a passion to know, and a freedom to follow wherever the truth may lead. The book goes into area of feeling and experience rarely entered in poetry. The ebullient language, the startling, far-reaching images, the sense of extraordinary connectedness seize us immediately. Sharon Olds transforms a harsh reality with truthfulness, with beauty, with humor—and without bitterness. The deep pain in The Father arises from a death, and from understanding a life. But there is joy as well. In the end, we discover we have been reading not a grim accounting but an inspiriting tragedy, transcending the personal. The radiance and daring that have always distinguished Sharon Old’s work find here their most powerful expression.