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9780375712456

Stories of Fatherhood

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  • ISBN13:

    9780375712456

  • ISBN10:

    0375712453

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2014-05-13
  • Publisher: Everyman's Library
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Summary

Stories of Fatherhood gathers more than a century of classic short stories about having, becoming, loving, and losing fathers.
 
Frank O’Connor’s hilarious tale of a tiny boy’s war against his paternal rival in “My Oedipus Complex” sits beside Ann Packer’s touching portrait of a man preparing for the wonder and terror of his first child’s birth. At the other end of the lifespan, John Updike’s “My Father’s Tears,” Jim Shepard’s “The Mortality of Parents,” and William Maxwell’s “The man who lost his father” bring us face to face with a loss that is like no other.
In between, we encounter a full range of emotions connecting men and their offspring:  tenderness and devotion, anxiety and incomprehension, admiration and regret. Powerful patriarchs cast a long shadow in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” and D. H. Lawrence’s “The Christening,” while Edith Wharton’s “His Father’s Son” sheds a more ironic light on the paternal legacy. E. L. Doctorow’s young protagonist, forced to write letters impersonating his dead father, arrives at a deeper understanding of him, while in Helen Simpson’s “Sorry?” an old man’s hearing aid seems to reveal what his children secretly think about him. Paternal bonds are forged outside biology, too: Graham Swift portrays a man wistfully seeking a substitute son, while Guy de Maupassant’s forlorn waif triumphantly acquires an ideal father. In these twenty stories, an array of great writers—ranging from Kafka, Joyce, and Nabokov to Raymond Carver, Harold Brodkey, and Andre Dubus—offers a wonderfully varied assortment of fictional takes on paternity.

Author Biography

Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of the Everyman's Pocket Classic anthologies Christmas Stories, Love Stories, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, Horse Stories, New York Stories, Bedtime Stories, Stories of Art and Artists, Stories of Fatherhood, Stories of Motherhood, Stories of the Sea, and Stories from the Kitchen, and of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet Lullabies and Poems for Children.

Table of Contents

Harold Brodkey, "His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft"
Frank O’Connor, "My Oedipus Complex"
Raymond Carver, "Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarets"
Graham Swift, "Gabor"
Ron Carlson, "The H Street Sledding Record"
Andre Dubus, "A Father’s Story"
E. L. Doctorow, "The Writer in the Family"
Vladimir Nabokov, "Christmas"
Ann Packer, "Her Firstborn"
Guy de Maupassant, "Simon’s Father"
James Joyce, "A Little Cloud"
Grace Paley, "Anxiety"
Franz Kafka, "The Judgment"
Katherine Mansfield, "The Daughters of the Late Colonel"
Helen Simpson, "Sorry?"
D. H. Lawrence, "The Christening"
Edith Wharton, "His Father’s Son"
Jim Shepard, "The Mortality of Parents"
John Updike, "My Father’s Tears"
William Maxwell, "The Man Who Lost His Father" 

 
 

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